trepan

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɪˈpæn/ (General American) IPA(key): /tɹəˈpæn/, /tɹi-/ Rhymes: -æn Hyphenation: tre‧pan === Etymology 1 === Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine. ==== Noun ==== trepan (plural trepans) A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine. ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== hole saw ==== Verb ==== trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned) (transitive, manufacturing, mining) 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. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine. ===== Derived terms ===== trepanned (adjective) trepanner trepanning (adjective, noun) trepanize trepanation ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === See trapan. ==== Noun ==== trepan (plural trepans) 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”) ==== Verb ==== trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned) 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”) === Further reading === trepanning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia trephine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia trepan (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === -pteran, Panter, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent == Galician == === Verb === trepan third-person plural present indicative of trepar == Occitan == === Pronunciation === === Noun === trepan m (plural trepans) drill trepan === Further reading === Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 696 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French trépan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /treˈpan/ === Noun === trepan n (plural trepane) (surgery) trepan ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “trepan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026 == Spanish == === Verb === trepan third-person plural present indicative of trepar