different between perforation vs wound

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

perforation (countable and uncountable, plural perforations)

1. The act of perforating or the state of being perforated.
2. Any opening in a solid object.
3. (medicine) An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.
4. A series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts.
5. (mathematics) That portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it.

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French

Etymology

From Latin perfor?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

perforation f (plural perforations)

1. perforation

Related terms

• perforer

Further reading

• “perforation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wund?. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wund?n?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: wo?ond, IPA^(key): /wu?nd/
  • (MLE) IPA^(key): /wy?nd/
• (US) enPR: wo?ond, IPA^(key): /wund/
• (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA^(key): /wa?nd/
• Rhymes: -u?nd

Noun

wound (plural wounds)

2. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

   • 1595 Shakespeare, "Wales. Before Flint castle", King Richard the Second.

     Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

3. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.

   It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

4. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Synonyms

• (injury): injury, lesion
• (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
• See also Thesaurus:injury

Derived terms

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Verb

wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)

1. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

2. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.

Synonyms

• (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
• (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend

Translations

Etymology 2

See wind (Etymology 2)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /wa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Verb

wound

1. simple past tense and past participle of wind

Derived terms

• drum-wound
• series-wound