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Vent   /vɛnt/   Listen
Vent

noun
1.
A hole for the escape of gas or air.  Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole.
2.
External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate.
3.
A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt.  Synonym: volcano.
4.
A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket).
5.
Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion.  Synonyms: outlet, release.  "He gave vent to his anger"
verb
(past & past part. vented; pres. part. venting)
1.
Give expression or utterance to.  Synonyms: give vent, ventilate.  "The graduates gave vent to cheers"
2.
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.  Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate.  "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"



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"Vent" Quotes from Famous Books



... vent to her feeling of injustice, was not concerned to mince her words: "You seem perfectly pleased with our separation, and indifferent how long it continues.... When I reflect on your behaviour, I am ashamed of my own: I think I am playing the part of my Lady Winchester. At least be as generous as My ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville
... a cloven pine; within which rift Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain, A dozen years; ... ... Where thou didst vent thy groans, As fast as ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... is now disposed to vent itself upon some one; my courage is at its height; if I meet him, there will be blood shed. Yes, I have sworn to kill him, nothing can keep me from doing so. Wherever I see him I will dispatch him. (Drawing his sword halfway and ...
— Sganarelle - or The Self-Deceived Husband • Moliere
... on the hill-slope, and the Erie, a frozen line of ice in the distant moonlight. The town seemed unusually bright with lights, for it was the gay season of the year. And, oh, if she but dared to give vent to that sob rising in her throat! She turned to the sleeper again; a little later he opened his eyes with a ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt
... with an ordinary gauge of water, and as water expands when heated, it also contracts when it becomes cool. Water will also simmer away, if there is any fire left in the fire box, especially if there should be any vent or leak in the boiler, and the water may by morning have dropped to as much as an inch below the crown sheet. You approach the engine and on looking at the glass, see two or three inches of water. Should you start a fire without ...
— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard


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