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vent

Pronunciation: /vɛnt/

The English word “vent” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  2. A small aperture.
  3. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
  4. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
  5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
  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.
  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.
  11. Discharge, efflux
  12. Ventriloquism.

verb

  1. To allow gases to escape.
  2. To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
  3. To allow to escape through a vent.
  4. To express a strong emotion.
  5. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  6. To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
  7. Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.
  8. To use a vent in the video game Among Us.

Etymology

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.

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