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vent

noun

1 vent

A hole for the escape of gas or air.

synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole.

Roget 671: escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion etc. (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; ... show more

Roget 351: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, ... show more

Roget 796: sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom etc. (traffic) 794.    vendibility, vendibleness.    ... show more

Dutch: gietgal, tochtgat, trekgat
Polish: odpowietrznik, odpowietrzacz

2 vent

External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate.

Dutch: tochtgat, trekgat

3 vent

A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt.

synonym: volcano.

Dutch: vulkaan, krater

4 vent

A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket).

5 vent

Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion:
— He gave vent to his anger.

synonyms: outlet, release.

Roget 295: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; ... show more

Roget 260: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; ... show more

Dutch: uitlaat, uitlaatklep

verb

1 vent

Give expression or utterance to:
— She vented her anger.
— The graduates gave vent to cheers.

synonyms: give vent, ventilate.

Roget 529: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, ... show more

2 vent

Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.

synonyms: air, air out, ventilate.

Dutch: verluchten


Moby thesaurus: air, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, announce, aperture, armhole, articulate, articulation, assert, avenue, blow, blow out, blowhole, blurt out, break, break it to ... show more.

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