| 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. Thesaurus Entries 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 |