hole punch

English

A hole punch.

Alternative forms

• holepunch (especially noun)
• hole-punch (especially verb)

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hole punch (plural hole punches)

1. A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.

Synonyms

• paper punch
• perforator

Derived terms

• hole punch cloud

Translations

tool

• Arabic: خَرَّامَة f (ḵarrāma), خَرَّامَة وَرَق f (ḵarrāmat waraq)
• Armenian: դակիչ (hy) (dakičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: dəlgəc, dəlməkeş, deşikaçan
• Belarusian: дзірако́л m (dzirakól)
• Bulgarian: перфора́тор m (perforátor)
• Catalan: perforadora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打窿機／打窿机 (yue) (daa² lung^4-1 gei¹), 釘窿機／钉窿机 (deng¹ lung^4-1 gei¹)

  Mandarin: 打孔器 (zh) (dǎkǒngqì), 打孔機／打孔机 (zh) (dǎkǒngjī), 釘孔機／钉孔机 (dīngkǒngjī), 穿孔機／穿孔机 (zh) (chuānkǒngjī)

• Czech: děrovačka (cs) f
• Danish: hullemaskine c, hulapparat n
• Dutch: perforator (nl) m
• Esperanto: truilo
• Estonian: auguraud
• Faroese: holari m
• Finnish: rei’ittäjä, rei’itin (fi)
• French: perforateur (fr) m, perforatrice (fr) f, trouilloteuse (fr) f (colloquial), trouilloteur m (colloquial)
• Georgian: სახვრეტელა (saxvreṭela)
• German: Locher (de) m
• Hebrew: מְחוֹרֵר (he) m (mekhorér), מְנַקֵּב (he) m (menakév)
• Hindi: होल छिद्रक (hol chidrak), छेद पंच (ched pañc)
• Hungarian: lyukasztó (hu)
• Icelandic: gatari (is) m
• Italian: perforatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 穴開けパンチ (あなあけぱんち, ana-ake panchi), パンチャー (panchā), 穿孔機 (ja) (せんこうき, senkōki), パンチ (ja) (panchi)
• Korean: 홀 펀치 (hol peonchi), 펀치 (peonchi), 천공기(穿孔機) (ko) (cheon'gonggi)
• Luxembourgish: Locher
• Macedonian: дупчалка f (dupčalka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цоолтуур (mn) (cooltuur), нүхлэх машин (nüxlex mašin) (China), цоолох машин (coolox mašin) (China)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hullemaskin (no) m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پانْچ (fa) (pânč), سوراخ‌کُن (surâx-kon)

• Polish: dziurkacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: perfuradora (pt) f
• Romanian: perforator (ro) n
• Russian: дыроко́л (ru) m (dyrokól), перфора́тор (ru) m (perforátor)
• Slovak: dierovačka f
• Slovene: luknjač m
• Spanish: perforadora (es) f, máquina perforadora f
• Swedish: hålslag (sv) n, hålslagare (sv) c, hålslagsapparat (sv) c
• Turkish: delgeç (tr)
• Ukrainian: діркопробива́ч m (dirkoprobyváč)
• Yiddish: שטעכער m (shtekher)

Verb

hole punch (third-person singular simple present hole punches, present participle hole punching, simple past and past participle hole punched) (transitive)

1. To punch holes using a hole punch.
2. (computing, networking) To create a NAT, WAN-to-LAN port forwarding on the router.

Further reading

• hole punch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hole punching (networking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia