Definition of Vent

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Definition of Vent

Vent

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

To sell; to vend.

A baiting place; an inn.

To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.

The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.

The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

To utter; to report; to publish.

To scent, as a hound.

To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

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Vent Quotations

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
Helena Bonham Carter

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice

Sometimes I like to vent.
Victoria Jackson

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
Barbara Deming

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.
Picabo Street

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
Drew Curtis

Vent Translations

vent in Latin is erumpo
vent in Spanish is abertura
vent in Swedish is utlopp

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