Vent meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Noun

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.

external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate

Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

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

Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment