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noun

an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.

an opening at the earth's surface from which volcanic material, as lava, steam, or gas, is emitted.

Zoology. the anal or excretory opening of animals, especially of those below mammals, as birds and reptiles.

the small opening at the breech of a gun by which fire is communicated to the charge.

a means of exit or escape; an outlet, as from confinement.

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expression; utterance; release: to give vent to one's emotions.

Obsolete. the act or fact of venting; emission or discharge.

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verb (used with object)

to give free play or expression to (an emotion, passion, etc.): to vent rage.

to give public utterance to: to vent one's opinions.

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to relieve by giving expression to something: He vented his disappointment by criticizing his successor.

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to release or discharge (liquid, smoke, etc.).

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to furnish or provide with a vent or vents.

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warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs

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verb (used without object)

13.

to be relieved of pressure or discharged by means of a vent.

14.

(of an otter or other animal) to rise to the surface of the water to breathe.

Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) Middle English venten to furnish (a vessel) with a vent, by aphesis < Old French esventer (es- ex- + -venter, verbal derivative of vent < Latin ventus wind¹), in later use derivative of the E noun; (noun) partly < French vent (< Latin ventus), partly by aphesis < French évent (Old French esvent, derivative of esventer), partly derivative of the E v.

Related forms

vent·less, adjective

un·vent·ed, adjective

Example Sentences

Ideally, the vent should be centered under the roof peak.

Organizational culture is successful when complaints are allowed adequately to vent steam.

Above that, curiouser still: a wide, gaping air vent of the sort that you might see at the top of a mine-shaft.

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Ideally, the vent should be centered under the roof peak.

Organizational culture is successful when complaints are allowed adequately to vent steam.

Above that, curiouser still: a wide, gaping air vent of the sort that you might see at the top of a mine-shaft.

These creatures are able to survive without sunlight because of the heat and minerals provided by the vent.

Water issues from a vent at temperatures that can exceed boiling.

Haleakala originated as a vent on the seafloor about two million years ago.

The old vent is to the right in the image and new to the left.

To test the vent safely, first close the supply valve that admits steam to the radiator.

Vent if you need to at your meetings, but do it constructively and keep a cap on it.

Chinese citizens often use the same websites to vent their grievances at the government on innumerable blogs and postings.

Gray-buff flanks crisply streaked brown, vent and undertail coverts whitish, streaked vent.

The site also offers excellent background information on vent biology, plate tectonics and other topics in geology.

One day he forgot to vent some of his bottles properly and they blew up.

The eruption paved over some of the area's hydrothermal vent communities with lava.

One of the larger animals at the vent fields, the graceful sea spider, which is related to land spiders.

But such initiatives can do little beyond allowing people to vent their anger about corruption.

Back gray, below pale whitish gray with darker flanks, white or sometimes yellowish vent.

In addition, the newly drilled hole began spouting heated seawater, making it the first manmade hydrothermal vent on the seafloor.

Vent mercury, likely thousands of years old, would be produced independent of human activity.

Use the stove bolts through the holes to fasten the straps to each vent cover and to the drum side and lid.

Open the vent by unscrewing it counterclockwise while holding a small pan or measuring cup with a handle beneath it.

Their nether regions vent air across narrower back-to-back gaps.

Bacteria grow by using the chemical energy of reduced sulfur compounds, plentiful in the warm vent water.

These inserts draw in air to oxygenate the fire and channel smoke outside, either up the chimney or through a vent.

We visited him a year later and he slept at the viewing window next to that vent he liked.

If that happens, there might be more explosive eruptions that accompany the collapse as the pressure is released on the vent.

Boldly, stepping out to vent at a political rally in front of cameras, not being sought out in their communities.

When the sleeves go back on a meshlined collar and mesh side panels continue to vent and regulate heat.

Put another way: humanity can only afford to burn and vent less than one quarter of known oil, natural gas and coal reserves.

For one, a crater lake has now been spotted at the summit vent of the volcano.

If you have ideological problems with that, this perhaps is not the best forum to vent.

Hydrate crystals won't have a lot of metal to cling to and the top vent tubes can be heated as well.

But here's a chime on sinus meds, lots of water and making sure that the air vent above you is on maximum.

Paul describes a fake vent he is considering for the facade.

The vent consisted of calling me several names, denigrating my teaching skills in the grad seminar.

Feel free to vent about whatever money-related here.

These chimneys are built from mineral precipitation when the hot vent fluids mix with seawater.

The deepest emotions are not always those that can find their vent through the common channels of physical expression.

It wasn't until the third flyby that scientists recognized the bowl for what it is: a volcanic vent.

There was a voice through the vent between their cells.

No doubt she will continue to vent her fury in print.

Smoke flowed out of the vent and was immediately sucked back into the building.

The sample was taken from the mineral-laden plume boiling up from the vent.

Workers are currently draining the shuttle's external tank so they can inspect the vent line.

That's more than enough destructive potential to vent our appliance-induced fury.

Both us old guys vent our anger at the madness around us by wrestling with the news in the columns and op-ed pages.

In all seriousness, having someone to vent to who can actually help you improve your coping mechanisms is really helpful.

His family insisted on keeping him on a vent in this state for months.

Flaring is seen as a safer way to manage the gas that simply allowing it to vent into the air.

There is even a website for people to vent against cell phone owners.

Patients vent about workplace frustrations, stalled careers and shattered.

And it's an ok way to vent about the crappy job market.

There are forumsFacebookand other places where you can vent your frustrations.

Then seawater entered the vent of the collapsing volcano and explosively mixed with magma and gases.

Then, he places the chamber on the vaporizer's exhaust vent.

To check the flow, hold a smoking incense stick near the vent hood.

Thank you again for letting me vent and for being there.

Some have taken to online forums to vent or find out ways to remove the pre-loaded apps from their phones.

The smoke from the stick should be drawn up under the hood into the vent pipe.

There's a difference between having a positive relationship with an advisor and being able to vent to them.

To minimize this drag, the driver can close the vent with his left knee, halting air flow to the rear wing.

All come in oval translucent plastic dishes covered with plastic film that has a steam vent.

It would feel so good to punch that bully in the face, to vent your frustration with a fight.

It's harder for them to release or vent without feeling girly.

The dome building is being driven by the rhyolite magma under the vent continues to rise and extrude onto the domes.

Logan flees to a construction site and manages to tape the bag to the wall of an air-conditioning vent before he is arrested.

The back vent is too small to allow much in-and-out air flow.

The kitchen was recently renovated and has a professional grade stove and vent.

Also examine the base of the pump for a small vent hole about the size of a pencil point.

Replacing the vent line with a modified part should stop the dripping.

The replacement went smoothly, but replacing a protective cover over the vent proved difficult, and that task was put aside.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a slit in the back or side of a coat, jacket, or other garment, at the bottom part of a seam.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English vente; replacing Middle English fente < Middle French, derivative of fendre to slit < Latin findere to split

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World English Dictionary

vent¹ (vɛnt)

—n
1.	a small opening for the passage or escape of fumes, liquids, etc
2.	the shaft of a volcano or an aperture in the earth's crust through which lava and gases erupt
3.	the external opening of the urinary or genital systems of lower vertebrates
4.	a small aperture at the breech of old guns through which the charge was ignited
5.	an exit, escape, or passage
6.	give vent to to release (an emotion, passion, idea, etc) in an utterance or outburst

—vb
7.	to release or give expression or utterance to (an emotion, idea, etc): he vents his anger on his wife
8.	to provide a vent for or make vents in
9.	to let out (steam, liquid, etc) through a vent

[C14: from Old French esventer to blow out, from ex-¹ + venter, from Vulgar Latin ventāre (unattested) to be windy, from Latin ventus wind]

'venter¹

—n

'ventless¹

—*adj*

vent² (vɛnt)

—n
1.	a vertical slit at the back or both sides of a jacket

—vb
2.	(tr) to make a vent or vents in (a jacket)

[C15: from Old French fente slit, from fendre to split, from Latin findere to cleave]

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Word Origin & History

vent

late 14c., "emit from a confined space," probably aphetic of O.Fr. eventer "let out, expose to air," from V.L. *exventare, from L. ex- "out" + ventus "wind" (see wind (n.)). Sense of "express freely" first recorded 1590s. The noun meaning "hole, opening, outlet" is first recorded

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1560s. Meaning "action of venting" is recorded from 1550s. Sense of "divulge, publish" (1590s) is behind phrase vent one's spleen (see spleen).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

vent (věnt)
n.
An opening into a cavity or canal, especially one through which contents are discharged.

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Science Dictionary

vent (věnt) Pronunciation Key

An opening, and the conduit leading to it, in the side or at the top of a volcano, permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam.
1. The excretory opening of the digestive tract in animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Also called cloaca.
2. See cloaca.

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Idioms & Phrases

vent

In addition to the idiom beginning with vent, also see give vent to.

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"There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses."

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