Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• vents
• venting
• vented

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Use vent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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