vent

Meanings

Noun

• An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
• A small aperture.
• The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
• A verbalized frustration.
• The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
• A slit in the seam of a garment.
• The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
• In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
• Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
• Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
• Ventriloquism.
• A baiting place; an inn.
• Short form of ventilation or ventilator.

Verb

• To allow gases to escape.
• To allow to escape through a vent.
• To express a strong emotion.
• To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
• To sell; to vend.
• To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

Origin

• Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento and ventana. wind.
• From French vente, from Latin vendo.
• From Spanish venta.