trepan

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

Verb

1. (transitive) 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.
2. To use a trepan; to trephine.

Verb

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”)

Conceptos

trepanar

Sinónimos

trephine

borer

bur

burr

drill

miser

bitstock

trephining

sinking machine

well-rig

auger

trepanning machine

Traducciones

trépan

τρυπάνι

betrügen

locken

überlisten

verleiten

verlocken

kernbohren

Schädelbohrer ''m''

Trepan ''m''

οστεοτρύπανο

πριόνι χειρουργού

τρυπανίζω κρανίο

τρύπανο

τρύπαρο χειρουργού

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɹɪˈpæn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: -

Heredado de inglés antiguo: treppan

In summary

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.