trepanとは

語源 1

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

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

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

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepanning または trepaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepanned または trepaned)

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

語源 2

Possibly from 古期英語 treppan (“to trap”).

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
   • Macaulay

     He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.

2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
   • South

     Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepaned)

1. (archaic) To trick; to ensnare; to seduce.

アナグラム

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent