vent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
video-games
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.
Inflected forms:
form: vents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: venting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A small aperture.
pos: noun
examples: 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: […]
gloss: An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
pos: noun
gloss: A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
pos: noun
gloss: The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
pos: noun
gloss: A slit in the seam of a garment.
pos: noun
gloss: The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
pos: noun
gloss: In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
pos: noun
gloss: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
pos: noun
gloss: Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
pos: noun
examples: without the vent of words
Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.
gloss: Discharge, efflux
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: Whenever, in cases of the morbus mucosus, the vent of urine is impeded, or if the urine itself is morbid in quality, the result […] is that there is a sense of heat and pain in the medulla spinalis, which is opposite to the kidneys.
she had two more teeth out, with vent of pus from bicuspid
gloss: To allow gases to escape.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The stove vents to the outside.
gloss: To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive.
gloss: To allow to escape through a vent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Exhaust is vented to the outside.
gloss: To express a strong emotion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He vents his anger violently.
Can we talk? I need to vent.
He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
“They won’t shut the fuck up about it,” Trump privately vented — referring to conservative influencers and media types lashing out over the Epstein memo — according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
gloss: To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
pos: verb
examples: Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.
gloss: To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To use a vent in the video game Among Us.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: We suspect they’ve vented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel.
“Among Us” has become ingrained into Generation Z’s culture in such a way that phrases such as “yellow is sus,” “purple vented” or “skip vote” are part of our daily vernacular.
When you’re venting as an impostor, you’ll be able to peer through the grille to see who’s passing by.
Related words: seal
Derived words: air admittance vent
air vent
fissure vent
give vent to
hydrothermal vent
O'Shea's vent barnacle
pie vent
ridge vent
vent pecking
vent-piece
vent stack
vent window
vent one's gall
vent one's spleen
vent sex
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отдушник
roman: otdušnik
lang: Czech
word: výlev
lang: Hungarian
word: szabad folyás
lang: Italian
word: sfogo
lang: Russian
word: излива́ние
roman: izlivánije
lang: Russian
word: выраже́ние
roman: vyražénije
lang: Russian
word: вы́ход
roman: výxod