scriptorium.) <span class="searchmatch">perforable</span> (not comparable) Capable of being <span class="searchmatch">perforated</span> or penetrated. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “<span class="searchmatch">perforable</span>”, in...
From <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span> + -or. <span class="searchmatch">perforator</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">perforators</span>) A tool or machine that makes holes, or <span class="searchmatch">perforates</span>, materials such as paper and card. A machine...
perforat(e) (“<span class="searchmatch">perforated</span>, pierced”), borrowed from Latin perforātus, the perfect passive participle of perforō (“to bore or pierce through, to <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span>”) (see...
Having a series of holes enabling easy tearing along a straight line. having a series of holes <span class="searchmatch">perforated</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">perforating</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">perforators</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">perforator</span>...
perforatif. <span class="searchmatch">perforative</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">perforative</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">perforative</span>) (dated) Having the power to <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span> or pierce; piercing. <span class="searchmatch">perforative</span> hit...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">perforâtes</span> <span class="searchmatch">perforates</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">perforately</span> In a <span class="searchmatch">perforate</span> manner....
See also: <span class="searchmatch">perforates</span> <span class="searchmatch">perforâtes</span> second-person plural past historic of perforer...