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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)
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- A small aperture.
- The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
- A verbalized frustration.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
- 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.
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
Etymology 2
Clipping of ventriloquism
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- Ventriloquism.
Etymology 3
French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
Noun
vent
- sale; opportunity to sell; market
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
Etymology 4
Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”). See vent (“sale”).
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
Etymology 5
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (medicine, colloquial) Ventilation or ventilator.
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