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vent¹
- /vɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
noun vents
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An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
Similar: outlet
- A small aperture. Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
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The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
Similar: touch hole
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. without the vent of words
- Discharge, efflux Whenever, in cases of the morbus mucosus, the vent of urine is impeded, or if the urine itself is morbid in quality, the result […] is that there is a sense of heat and pain in the medulla spinalis, which is opposite to the kidneys.
verb vents · venting · vented
- To allow gases to escape. The stove vents to the outside.
- To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.). In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This
- To allow to escape through a vent. Exhaust is vented to the outside.
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To express a strong emotion.
He vents his anger violently.
Similar: let off steam
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.
- To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.
- To use a vent in the video game Among Us. We suspect they’ve vented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel.
vent²
- /vɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
Clipping of ventriloquism.
noun vents
- Ventriloquism.
vent³
- /vɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
verb vents · venting · vented
- To sell; to vend. Therefore did those nations […]vent such spice.
vent⁴
- /vɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).
noun vents
- A baiting place; an inn.
vent⁵
- /vɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
Clipping.
noun vents
- Clipping of ventilation or ventilator. I have adjusted the vent settings.
verb vents · venting · vented
- To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
Vent⁶
Where it comes from
Reduced form of Dutch de Vent.
proper noun Vents
- A surname from Dutch.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: air out, ventilate, venthole, air, volcano, crater, blowhole, give vent, airing, outlet, ventilation, blower, breeze, exhaust, breather, breathable
Translations
Every language
noun a verbalized frustration
| Italiano | sfogo |
|---|---|
| Русский | излива́ние izlivánije, выраже́ние vyražénije, вы́ход výxod |
noun an opening through which gases, especially air, can pass
| Português | respiradouro |
|---|---|
| Français | bouche d'aération |
| Deutsch | Luftloch, Öffnung |
| Italiano | sfogo, sfiatatoio, bocchetta |
| Русский | вентиляцио́нное отве́рстие ventiljaciónnoje otvérstije, выходно́е отве́рстие vyxodnóje otvérstije, отду́шина otdúšina |
| العربية | فُتْحَة futḥa |
| עברית | אַוְרָר |
noun an opening in a volcano from which lava flows
| Español | chimenea, fumarola |
|---|---|
| Français | cheminée |
| Deutsch | Ausbruchkanal |
| Italiano | camino |
| Русский | же́рло вулка́на žérlo vulkána |
noun the excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates
| Español | cloaca, ano |
|---|---|
| Français | cloaque |
| Italiano | cloaca |
| Русский | ана́льное отве́рстие análʹnoje otvérstije |
verb to allow gases to escape
| Français | évacuer |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | entlüften |
| Русский | выпуска́ть vypuskátʹ, вы́пустить výpustitʹ |
verb to allow to escape through a vent
| Français | ventiler |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | entlüften, abführen |
| العربية | نَفَّسَ naffasa, هَوَّى hawwā |
verb to express a strong emotion
| Español | desahogar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 發洩 /發泄 /发泄 fāxiè |
| Português | desabafar, extravasar |
| Français | donner libre cours, manifester, s'épancher |
| Deutsch | ablassen, äußern, ausdrücken, aussprechen |
| Italiano | sfogarsi |
| Română | se descărca, se elibera |
| Русский | излива́ть izlivátʹ, изли́ть izlítʹ, срыва́ть sryvátʹ, сорва́ть sorvátʹ, выража́ть vyražátʹ, вы́разить výrazitʹ |
| العربية | نَفَّسَ عَن naffasa ʕan |
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