noun
Meaning 1
A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
trepan
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɹɪˈpæn/
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General-American: /tɹəˈpæn/
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General-American: /tɹi-/
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rhymes with -æn
noun
Meaning 2
A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative spelling of trapan (“act of entrapping or tricking; thing which entraps or tricks; (archaic or obsolete) person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim”)
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verb
Meaning 4
To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, manufacturing, mining
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verb
Meaning 5
To use a trepan; to trephine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
Alternative spelling of trapan (“to catch or entrap (a person or animal) in a snare or trap; (figurative) to trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim”)
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noun
Meaning 7
a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: drill
noun
Meaning 8
a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trephine
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: surgical instrument
verb
Meaning 9
cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bore, drill
History
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.
See trapan.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: trépan — tool to bore
- Italian: perforatrice — tool to bore
- Italian: trivella — tool to bore
- Italian: trapano — tool to bore
- Swedish: trepan — tool to bore
- Bulgarian: пробивам (probivam) — to create a large hole
- Spanish: trepanar — to create a large hole
- Galician: trepanar — to use a trepan
- German: trepanieren — to use a trepan
- Spanish: trepanar — to use a trepan
- Swedish: trepanera — to use a trepan