🕳️ A hole maker 🩸 A connecting vessel

perforator

1 7.1

A tool that makes holes in materials like paper or metal

noun
/ˈpɜrfəˌreɪtər/

: perforadora

A full range of interchangeable bur tips is available in carbide, diamond, and perforator styles.

Examples

The architect used a perforator to create precise holes in the design plans.
He pulled out a perforator, a modified engraver's roulette.

Fiction book (1992)
To install the cable, he needed a perforator to make holes in the wall.
In the medical procedure, the doctor used a perforator to connect two blood vessels.

Synonyms

perforating vein

vsperforator

Specialized

6.8

A vein that passes through deep tissue to connect surface veins with deep veins in the leg

also means a hole-making tool rather than an anatomical vessel

perforant

vsperforator

9.5

A tool that makes holes in materials like paper or leather

also denotes an anatomical vessel connecting two veins

holer

vsperforator

8.8

A tool used to make holes in wood or soil

also has the separate medical sense of a connecting vein

piercer

vsperforator

5.6

A sharp tool for making holes in materials like leather or paper

is any hole-making device and need not have a sharp point

Surface Forms

perforator singular

perforators plural

Morphology

perforator = perforate (transparent) = perforate + or

Standard agentive formation: 'perforate' (to make holes) + '-or' yields 'one that makes holes', a directly derived meaning.

Etymology

Perforator comes from Latin parts per- meaning 'through' and forare meaning 'to pierce', and it shares the same root as perforate. Think of a hole punch that 'goes through' paper or metal to make holes, so a tool that makes holes is called a perforator.