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Meaning Of Vent

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



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