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Definition vent

Etymology 1

Partly from Old French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”).

Noun

vent (plural vents)

  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  2. A small aperture.
  3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
  4. A verbalized frustration.
  5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
  6. A slit in the seam of a garment.
  7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

  1. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
  2. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

Etymology 2

Clipping of ventriloquism

Noun

vent (plural vents)

  1. Ventriloquism.

Etymology 3

French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).

Noun

vent

  1. sale; opportunity to sell; market
Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

  1. To sell; to vend.

Etymology 4

Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”). See vent (“sale”).

Noun

vent (plural vents)

  1. (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

Etymology 5

Noun

vent (plural vents)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Ventilation or ventilator.

Results 490 Words with the letters VENT

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ADVENT 12
EVENTS 11
INVENT 12
INVERT 11
INVEST 11
INVITE 11
LEVANT 12
NATIVE 11
TAVERN 11
UNVEXT 19
VENTED 12
VENTER 11
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EVENT 10
VENTS 10
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VENT 9
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NET 4
TEN 4
VET 7
2 letter words with the letters VENT 
EN 3
ET 2
NE 3

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