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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;
come off,
impunity.
[Means of escape]
loophole
etc.
(opening)
260;
path
etc.
627;
refuse
etc.
666;
vent,
vent peg;
safety valve;
drawbridge,
fire escape.
reprieve
etc.
(deliverance)
672;
liberation
etc.
750.
refugee
etc.
(fugitive)
623.
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Roget 351:
air pipe,
air tube;
airhole†,
blowhole,
breathinghole†,
venthole;
shaft,
flue,
chimney,
funnel,
vent,
nostril,
nozzle,
throat,
weasand†,
trachea;
bronchus,
bronchia [Med.];
larynx,
tonsils,
windpipe,
spiracle;
ventiduct†,
ventilator;
louvre,
jalousie,
Venetian blinds;
blowpipe
etc.
(wind)
349;
pipe
etc.
(tube)
260;
jhilmil†;
smokestack.
screen,
window screen. ' artificial lung,
iron lung,
heart and lung machine.
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Roget 796:
sale,
vent,
disposal;
auction,
roup,
Dutch auction;
outcry,
vendue†;
custom
etc.
(traffic)
794.
vendibility,
vendibleness†.
seller;
vender,
vendor;
merchant
etc.
797;
auctioneer.
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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;
extravasation [Med.],
perspiration,
sweating,
leakage,
percolation,
distillation,
oozing;
gush
etc.
(water in motion)
348;
outpour,
outpouring;
effluence,
effusion;
effluxion†,
drain;
dribbling
etc.
v.;
defluxion†;
drainage;
outcome,
output;
discharge
etc.
(excretion)
299.
export,
expatriation;
emigration,
remigration†;
debouch,
debouche;
emunctory†;
exodus
etc.
(departure)
293;
emigrant.
outlet,
vent,
spout,
tap,
sluice,
floodgate;
pore;
vomitory,
outgate†,
sally port;
way out;
mouth,
door
etc.
(opening)
260;
path
etc.
(way)
627;
conduit
etc.
350;
airpipe
etc.
351†.
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Roget 260:
hole,
foramen;
puncture,
perforation;
fontanel†;
transforation†;
pinhole,
keyhole,
loophole,
porthole,
peephole,
mousehole,
pigeonhole;
eye of a needle;
eyelet;
slot.
opening;
aperture,
apertness†;
hiation†,
yawning,
oscitancy†,
dehiscence,
patefaction†,
pandiculation†;
chasm
etc.
(interval)
198.
embrasure,
window,
casement;
abatjour†;
light;
sky light,
fan light;
lattice;
bay window,
bow window;
oriel [Arch.];
dormer,
lantern.
outlet,
inlet;
vent,
vomitory;
embouchure;
orifice,
mouth,
sucker,
muzzle,
throat,
gullet,
weasand†,
wizen,
nozzle;
placket.
portal,
porch,
gate,
ostiary†,
postern,
wicket,
trapdoor,
hatch,
door;
arcade;
cellarway†,
driveway,
gateway,
doorway,
hatchway,
gangway;
lich gate†.
way,
path
etc.
627;
thoroughfare;
channel;
passage,
passageway;
tube,
pipe;
water pipe
etc.
350;
air pipe
etc.
351;
vessel,
tubule,
canal,
gut,
fistula;
adjutage†,
ajutage†;
ostium†;
smokestack;
chimney,
flue,
tap,
funnel,
gully,
tunnel,
main;
mine,
pit,
adit†,
shaft;
gallery.
alley,
aisle,
glade,
vista.
bore,
caliber;
pore;
blind orifice;
fulgurite†,
thundertube†.
porousness,
porosity.
sieve,
cullender†,
colander;
cribble†,
riddle,
screen;
honeycomb.
apertion†,
perforation;
piercing
etc.
v.;
terebration†,
empalement†,
pertusion†,
puncture,
acupuncture,
penetration.
key
etc.
631,
opener,
master key,
password,
combination,
passe-partout.
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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,
uncover,
unseal,
unkennel;
take off the seal,
break the seal;
lay open,
lay bare;
expose;
open,
open up;
bare,
bring to light.
divulge,
reveal,
break;
squeal [Coll.],
tattle [Coll.],
sing [Coll.],
rat [Coll.],
snitch [Coll.];
let into the secret;
reveal the secrets of the prison house;
tell
etc.
(inform)
527;
breathe,
utter,
blab,
peach;
let out,
let fall,
let drop,
let slip,
spill the beans,
let the cat out of the bag;
betray;
tell tales,
come out of school;
come out with;
give vent,
give utterance to;
open the lips,
blurt out,
vent,
whisper about;
speak out
etc.
(make manifest)
525;
make public
etc.
531;
unriddle
etc.
(find out)
480.1;
split.
acknowledge,
allow,
concede,
grant,
admit,
own,
own up to,
confess,
avow,
throw off all disguise,
turn inside out,
make a clean breast;
show one's hand,
show one's cards;
unburden one's mind,
disburden one's mind,
disburden one's conscience,
disburden one's heart;
open one's mind,
lay bare one's mind,
tell a piece of one's mind [Fr.];
unbosom oneself,
own to the soft impeachment;
say the truth,
speak the truth;
turn King's evidence,
Queen's evidence;
acknowledge the corn [U.S.].
raise the mask,
drop the mask,
lift the mask,
remove the mask,
throw off the mask;
expose;
lay open;
undeceive†,
unbeguile†;
disabuse,
set right,
correct,
open the eyes of;
d_esillusionner.
be disclosed
&c.;
transpire,
come to light;
come in sight
etc.
(be visible)
446;
become known,
escape the lips;
come out,
ooze out,
creep out,
leak out,
peep out,
crop-out;
show its face,
show its colors;
discover itself
&c.;
break through the clouds,
flash on the mind.
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2 vent
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.
synonyms: air, air out, ventilate.
Dutch: verluchten
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