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Definition of Vent

Vent

  1. Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
  2. To sell; to vend.
  3. A baiting place; an inn.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  5. 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.
  6. The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
  7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  8. Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
  11. To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
  12. To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
  13. To utter; to report; to publish.
  14. To scent, as a hound.
  15. To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

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

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

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

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding

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

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

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