Vent

Noun



 * 1) An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
 * 2) The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
 * 3) A verbalized frustration.
 * 4) The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
 * 5) A slit in the seam of a garment.

Derived terms

 * ridge vent

Verb

 * 1)  To allow gases to escape.
 * The stove vents to the outside.
 * 1)  To allow to escape through a vent.
 * Exhaust is vented to the outside.
 * 1)  To express.
 * He vents his anger violently.

Noun

 * 1)  Ventriloquism.

Derived terms

 * vent puppet

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, break the news, breakout, breathe, breathing hole, broadcast, brolly, bullet-hole, bunghole, cast out, channel, chute, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, cringle, deadeye, debouch, declare, defecate, deliverance, delivery, deplete, discharge, divulgate, divulge, door, drain, drogue chute, duct, dump, egress, eject, eliminate, emanation, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, empty, empty out, emunctory, enunciate, escape, escapism, estuary, evacuate, evasion, evulgate, exhaust, exit, expel, express, extrication, extrusion, eye, eyelet, fissure, flight, floodgate, flue, flume, freeing, fumarole, funnel, gasket, getaway, give, give off, give out, give vent to, grommet, guide, harness, hole, inlet, issuance, issue, jailbreak, keyhole, knothole, leak, leakage, let get around, let go, let in on, let loose, let out, liberation, loop, loophole, loose, louver, louverwork, make known, make public, manhole, mousehole, naris, nostril, opening, orifice, out, out with, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pack, parachute, parachute jump, passage, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, pipe, placket, placket hole, pore, port, porthole, prisonbreak, proclaim, pronounce, publish, punch-hole, purge, put, release, remove, rescue, reveal, riddance, sally port, scour out, setting-free, shaft, shroud lines, sky dive, slit, slot, sluice, spilehole, spiracle, spout, state, statement, surfacing, sweep out, tap, tell, throw off, throw out, touchhole, transom, umbrella, unclog, unfoul, unleash, utter, utterance, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilate, ventilating shaft, ventilator, verbalization, verbalize, vocalization, voice, void, vomitory, way out, weir, wind tunnel

Etymology 1
Partly from vent:, from  ventus: and party from  éventer:.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation.

Noun

 * Czech: průduch
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Italian:, ,
 * Old Irish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: purkautumisaukko
 * German: Ausbruchkanal


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech: výlev


 * Italian:


 * Italian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Spanish: ,


 * : abertura

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * German: entlüften


 * Finnish: purkaa tunteitaan


 * German:

Noun

 * 1) wind (movement of air)

Noun

 * 1) wind (movement of air).

Noun

 * 1) chap, fellow

Noun

 * 1) Atmospheric wind.
 * 2)  A flatulence.
 * 3)  Empty words, hot air.
 * Toute ses promesses, c'est du vent. — Those are empty promises.

Synonyms

 * pet
 * paroles en l'air

Related terms

 * venter
 * venteux
 * ventilateur
 * ventôse


 * moulin à vent
 * vent solaire
 * instrument à vent
 * vent arrière
 * vents contraires

Derived terms

 * avoir vent
 * à tout vent
 * dans le vent
 * en coup de vent
 * vent en poupe
 * avoir le vent en poupe
 * sous le vent


 * contre vents et marées
 * le nez au vent
 * voir venir le vent
 * sentir le vent
 * aller dans le sens du vent
 * rapide comme le vent
 * comme le vent
 * faire du vent

Noun

 * 1) wind movement of air

Noun

 * 1) wind movement of air