Meaning of Vent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
2. Ventriloquism.
3. A baiting place; an inn.
   obsolete
4. Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
5. A surname from Dutch.
6. A small aperture.
7. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
8. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
9. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
10. A slit in the seam of a garment.
11. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
12. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
13. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
14. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

Equivalents

Examples

“the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould”

“According to geologists who work in the area, the vents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer.”

“Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.”

“There, at one Paſſage, oft you might ſurvey / A Lye and Truth contending for the vvay; / And long 'tvvas doubtful, both ſo cloſely pent, / VVhich firſt ſhould iſſue thro the narrovv Vent: […]”

“without the vent of words”

“Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.”

“I have adjusted the vent settings.”

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