Vent

Quick meaning: Vent is a noun meaning An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

Meaning

An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

More Meanings

1. A small aperture.
2. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
3. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
4. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
5. A slit in the seam of a garment.
6. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
7. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

Example Sentences

without the vent of words

the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould

Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.

Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.

Word Forms

• vents
• venting
• vented

Synonyms for vent

Depending on context, synonyms include air, crater, blowhole, ventilate, venthole, volcano.

Antonyms for vent

Common opposites include unadjusted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ventilate, venthole, air, volcano, crater, blowhole.

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