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Definition: Vent |
VentNoun1. A hole for the escape of gas or air. 2. External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate. 3. A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt. Verb1. Give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers". 2. Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A normally sealed mechanism which allows for the controlled escape of gases from within a cell. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An opening in a tank or other piece of equipment, sealed to prevent escape of material within the equipment at normal pressures, but so arranged that it automatically opens to relieve excessive pressure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A component of a heating or ventilation appliance used to conduct fresh air into, or waste air or combustion gases out of, an appliance or interior space.Vent Damper A device mounted in the vent connector that closes the vent when the heating unit is not firing. This traps heat inside the heating system and house rather than letting it draft up and out the vent system. (references) |
Geological | The opening at the Earth's surface through which volcanic materials (lava, tephra, and gases) erupt. Vents can be at a volcano's summit or on its slopes; they can be circular (craters) or linear (fissures). (Teacher's Packet)* An opening in the Earth's surface through which volcanic materials (magma and gas) escape. (Gardner, et.al., 1995). (references) |
Industry | A fine short surface crack, caused by the contact between hot glass and a colder surface. "Check" usually refers to a crack which is short but relatively deep; "crizzle" to a longer very shallow crack. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A small crack running into the glass from an edge. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Narrow openings in closed molds used to lead gases, which form in casting, away from the mold cavity via the riser. All vents are connected to a common riser. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | A small opening in the wall of a vapour proofed space allowing moisture contained in the insulation to escape. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A passage to a reference pressure, normally the ambient pressure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | To cut channels through the sand of a mould or core to remove the air or gases in the mould or core during the pouring operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A small opening or passage in a mould or core to facilitate the escape of gases. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. In explosives, a small passage made with a needle through stemming, for admitting a squib to enable the charge to be lighted. b. A hole, extending up through the bearing at the top of the core-barrel inner tube, that allows water and air in the upper part of the inner tube to escape into the borehole or into the annular space between inner andouter barrels. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Ventilator. Definition: To replace old air with new air. Context: When a patient is having trouble breathing on their own. Social Source: Respiratory Therapists. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Sports & Leisure | An opening, usually at the apex of a parachute canopy. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: VentSynonyms: blowhole (n), venthole (n), volcano (n), air (v), air out (v), give vent (v), ventilate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); 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; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Egress | Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe. |
Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape. | |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Escape | Elude; make off; (avoid); march off; (go away); give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of. |
Loophole; (opening); path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape. | |
Opening | Outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket. |
Passage | Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground. |
Publication | Be published; be public, become public; Adjective: come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire. |
Resentment | Chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain. |
Sale | Noun: sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom; (traffic). |
Speech | Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump. |
Stopper | Cover; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There's a dog in the vent. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Why didn't you climb through that vent and take off down the sewer in the other direction (Assault on Precinct 13; writing credit: John Carpenter) Probably just needed to vent. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Vitesse du vent (1974) Le Vent d'est (1969) Dans le vent (1963) Accroche toi y'a du vent (1962) Les Filles sèment le vent (1960) | |
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![]() | Vent Flowing Cold Gas and T/C Rake. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | The Army Creek landfill that was capped is in the upper-left hand corner of the image. The white pipe sticking up in the rear is a vent placed in the ground when the landfill was capped. The landfill contained both municipal and industrial wastes. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 16. Coup de vent, pres des Iles Powell, le 27 Janvier 1838. Parages Antarctiques. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ![]() | Chart showing the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges, hydrothermal vent sites. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Tube worms at a Pacific hydrothermal vent are related to hydrocarbon seep worms. Riftia pachyptila. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Hydrothermal vent tubeworms get energy from bacteria that live in their plumes. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Spider crabs around vent sites on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | [Cystoscopy: Instrument used by Desormeaux incorporating kerosene lamp, chimney vent, and mirror]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Encore un Coup de Vent. / Genty, Editeur, rue St. Jacques No. 33 Lith. de A. Cheyère. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Pop, if a man vos a millionaire here in der Unided States an' he vent to Germany ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Vent" by Slivester Chua Commentary: "A series of windows at the backstage." | "Air conditioning vent" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "A macro shot of a dusty air conditioning vent." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In that case they have hollows and chambers in the vent. |
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Health | Bladder augmentation with isolated bowel segments will increase bladder capacity and vent excessive bladder pressure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.92% of the time. "Vent" is used about 299 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.92% | 227 | 19,961 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 18.39% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.35% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 1% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 299 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "vent" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vent | Last name | 300 | 26,953 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| France | Groupe Plein Vent SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "vent": air vent ♦ barrel vent ♦ constructed vent diameter ♦ coup de vent ♦ find a vent ♦ find vent ♦ give vent ♦ give vent to ♦ give vent to one's anger ♦ give vent to one's feelings ♦ give vent to one's thoughts ♦ give vent to smth. ♦ inward vent valve ♦ pressure vent ♦ roof vent ♦ smoke vent ♦ surface vent ♦ To give vent to ♦ To take vent ♦ vent connector ♦ vent feather ♦ vent field ♦ vent glass ♦ vent hem ♦ vent hole ♦ vent holes ♦ vent itself ♦ vent one's spleen on ♦ vent one's spleen on smb. ♦ vent peg ♦ vent piece. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vent": Vent-a-layer, Vent-a-matic, Vent-axia, vent-gills, vent-hole, vent-line, vent-peg, vent-pipe, vent-plug, vent-type, vent-ure. | |
Ending with "vent": air-vent, vol-au-vent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
roof vent | 459 | vent plumbing | 35 |
hood vent | 249 | direct vent gas fireplace | 34 |
vent | 210 | bathroom vent | 34 |
ridge vent | 172 | power vent | 31 |
dryer vent | 152 | auto vent | 31 |
vent visor | 150 | hydrothermal vent | 31 |
gable vent | 131 | des rose vent | 29 |
soffit vent | 97 | dryer vent cleaning | 28 |
attic vent | 84 | solar vent | 28 |
air vent | 81 | floor vent | 26 |
vent cover | 69 | vent free gas fireplace | 26 |
vent shades | 64 | vent window | 25 |
direct vent fireplace | 56 | range hood vent | 24 |
vent free fireplace | 56 | power vent roof | 23 |
foundation vent | 56 | cobra ridge vent | 23 |
roof ridge vent | 47 | clothes dryer vent | 22 |
vent fan | 47 | vent valve | 22 |
georgia sports varsity vent | 45 | kitchen vent hood | 21 |
vent shade | 43 | install roof vent | 20 |
auto vent shade | 42 | air inc vent | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, venthole), shfrim (effusion, outburst), shfrej (rave, rave about, slake, wreak), qyngj (flue, pipe, stovepipe, tube), oxhak i vullkanit, i hap vrimë (notch), hapje (aperture, disclosure, dissection, inauguration, open, opening, orifice, rift, span, spreading, stretch, tablet, tabloid, troche, venthole), gyp (canal, channel, chimney, conduit, duct, fistula, funnel, pipe, stack, trumpet, tube), grykë (defile, gap, gizzard, gob, inlet, jaw, jaws, lip, maw, mouth, muzzle, neck, neckband, nose, nozzle, orifice, outfall, ravine, spout, throat), e çarë e xhaketës, dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, shoot). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتحة (aperture, breach, gap, manhole, niche, opening, orifice, overture, porthole, slash, slit, slot), فجوة أنبوبية, منفس, منفذ (access, aperture, carried out, executed, loophole, outlet), مصرف (declensional, ditch, drain, drainage, inflective, outlet), نفس عن, زود بفتحة, صرف (absolute, chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay, pay away, pure, put out, receive, resolve, scrape, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, withdraw), إست, ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, tear), شق فتحة, شق طولي (slit), شرج (baste, rectum, tack). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мазгал, давам воля на (indulge, unload, unrein), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hole, hutch, leak, mesh, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, tear), изпускам (elide, emit, exhale, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, ooze, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, shoot, throw out, utter), изтласквам (eject, push aside, push out, shove out), пробивам дупка в, пробивам отвор (hole), простор (elbow room, expanse, margin, play, scope, vast, vastness), давам израз на (articulate, voice), амбразура (embrasure, loophole, porthole), служа за отвор, отдушник (air hole, outlet, safety valve, spiracle, ventage, venthole, vent-pipe), отвор (aperture, eye, hole, mesh, mortise, mouth, nose, opening, orifice, perforation, port), клапа (finger-hole, flap, gate, key, pallet, register, shutter, stop, valve, ventage, ventil), комин (chimney, chimney stack, shaft, smokestack), цепка (cleft, fissure, rip, slash, slit, slot, split), служа за отдушник, служа за отвод, бойница (loophole, porthole). (various references) | |
Chinese | 出气孔. (various references) | |
Czech | ventil (valve), vìtrací otvor (blowhole), ulevit (unburden), projevit (demonstrate, display, exert, exhibit, manifest, offer), prùduch (spiracle), otvor (aperture, bore, gap, hole, opening, orifice), kouřovod (smoke flue), jícen (esophagus, gullet, oesophagus, throat), díra (backwater, burrow, gap, hole, joint, leak, pit, puncture, rip, split, tear), dát prùchod (give vent to), ústit (empty). (various references) | |
Danish | ventilationsafløbsåbning (used air outlet, ventilation outlet), ventilationsaabning (breather plug), udluftningskanal (air channel, shunt), udluftningsåbning, udluftning (vent holes, ventilation, venting), udlufte, trykudligningsport, topåbning, skraengt (check(starting from an edge), checked), skraenge (check, crizzle, skin crack), rumaftræk (used air outlet, ventilation outlet), mikrorevne (check, crizzle, skin crack), microrevne (check, crizzle, skin crack), luftstik (air channel), ånderør (breather, breather valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references) | |
Dutch | ventilatie-opening, stabilisatiegat, schoorsteen (chimney, fireplace, hearth, smokestack), ris (cluster, series, set), oppervlakscheurtje (check, crizzle, skin crack), ontluchtingspijp (breather), ontluchtingsopening, ontluchting (venting), ontluchter (breather, gas purger, non condensable gas purger), luchtzak (air pocket, air-pocket), luchtsteken, luchtgat, luchtafvoeropening (used air outlet, ventilation outlet), luchtafvoerkanaal (air channel), diffusie-opening (breather plug). (various references) | |
Farsi | منفذ (Bore, Pore), مخرج (Denominator, Outgo, Outlet, Port), خالی کردن (Aspirate, Deplete, Discharge, Disgorge, Empty, Evacuate, Hollow, Purge, Vacate), دریچه (Choke, Closure, Hatch, Lid, Porthole, Scuttle, Slacker, Valve, Wicket, Window), بیرون ریختن (Emit, Outpour, Void), بیرون دادن (Emission, Emit, Evolve, Exhale, Ooze), بادخورگذاردن برای . (various references) | |
Finnish | venttiili (valve, ventilator), tuuletusaukko (breather plug, louver, louvre), poisto (depreciation), poistaa ilma ja kaasut, lasin reunasta alkaen juokseva särö (check(starting from an edge)), kylmänritsi (check, crizzle, pressure vent, skin crack, surface crack, surface vent), kaasunpoistoaukko (air channel), kaasukanava, ilmauskanava, ilmareikä, ilmanpoistoventtiili, ilmanpoistokanava, ilmanpoistoaukko (air channel), huippuaukko. (various references) | |
French | cheminée. (various references) | |
German | entlüften (air, bleed, to exhaust the air from, ventilate), öffnung (aperture, inlet, jaw, mouth, opening, orifice, port, porthole). (various references) | |
Greek | άνοιγμα αερισμού, τρύπα (cavity, hole, leak, puncture), οπή αερισμού. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתת בטוי ל- (voice), להכין פתח, פורקן (redemption, relaxation, release, relief, salvation), פרצה (breach, gap, loophole, opening), אורור (aeration, airing, ventilation), כוה (hatchway, loophole, porthole, slit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lyuk (burrow, cavity, chuck-hole, earth, eye, hole, leakage, pit, puncture, sector, socket). (various references) | |
Italian | sfiatatoio (breather, breather plug, vent pipe), apertura d'uscita dell'aria viziata (used air outlet, ventilation outlet), dare le arie, dare sfogo a, foro (bore, bullet hole, forum, hole), foro apicale, foro di scarico aria, presa d'aria (snorkel), apertura (aperture, gap, gape, hole, inlet, leak, mouth, opening, openness, orifice, slot, span, spread), screpolatura di raffreddamento (check, crizzle, skin crack), tirata d'aria (air channel), sfiato di calotta, sfogare (come out, give vent to, let out, relieve one's feelings, take it out, take one's fill, wreak), sfogo (outburst, outlet, outpour, outpouring, rash), sfogo d'aria, smerigliatura (frosting), spacco (crack, slash, slit, split, tear), svuotare (empty, rifle, scoop out), tirare le arie, scaricare (deduct, disburden, discharge, disembogue, dump, empty, exhaust, flow, land, offload, release, relieve, run down, set down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 通風孔 , 通気孔 , 空気口 , ベンチュリ管 (bending, Benz, vending machine, ventilator, Venturi tube), 換気口 (ventilation opening), 出口 (exit, gateway, leak, outlet, way out), 出口 (exit, gateway, leak, outlet, way out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ベンツ (Benz), くうきこう (air hole, air pocket), でぐち (exit, gateway, leak, outlet, way out), つうきこう, つうふうこう, かんきこう (ventilation opening). (various references) | |
Korean | 환풍. (various references) | |
Manx | towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent-hole, water supply), thoyn (anus, arse, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buttock, rectum, seat), scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, venting), lhiggey magh (allocation, allocation work, assignation, discharge, emit, leak, leakage, let out, pay out, rap out, utterance, veer, venting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | respiradouro (air-shaft, blowhole, fistula, spiracle, venthole). (various references) | |
Romanian | slobozi (disentangle, extricate, free, hail, hound, loose hold, release), revãrsa un sentiment, rãsuflãtoare (air hole, ventilator), orificiu pentru ventilaţie, orificiu anal, orificiu (aperture, hole, loop, mouth, orifice, port), gurã (aperture, armful, Buss, chops, entrance, gab, gossip, influx, issue, jaw, kisser, lip, lips, mouth, mouthful, muzzle, orifice, pestering, plug, row, scolding, sip, speech, spout, squabble), gaurã (aperture, burrow, cave, cavity, den, earth, eyelet, gap, hole, hollow, loop, opening, orifice, pink), gãuri (bore, drift, drill, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, prickle, puncture, spring), emite (criticize, discharge, effuse, emit, express, flash, float, give, give forth, give off, issue, reissue, release, send, stream, suggest, transmit, utter), deschizãturã (aperture, breach, eyehole, gap, hole, loophole, louver, mouth, opening, orifice, out, slit). (various references) | |
Russian | срывать отдушина, сделать отверстие, разрез в юбке (placket), клапан (clack, flap, flapper, valve, ventage), выпускать (discharge, ease, emit, issue, let go, let out, put out, release, relinquish, send forth), выпор, воздушный клапан, отверстие (aperture, breach, break, ear, gab, gap, hiatus, hole, opening, orifice, slot, ventiduct), отдушина (air hole, hole, ventage, venthole), запал (fuse, fuze, heaves, portfire, roaring, venthole), задний проход (anus), жерло вулкана. (various references) | |
Scottish | sòrn (a flue, cavity, flue), luidhear (a vent, chimney). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ventil (cutoff, turncock, valve, vent-pipe), snabdeti otvorom, otvor (aperture, gape, hatch, hole, mouth, opening, orifice, port, scuttle, ventage), oduška (outlet, pause, rest, ventil), odušak (opening, spiracle), iskaliti (wreak), čmar (anus). (various references) | |
Spanish | ventosa (sucker), respiradero (air hole, air valve, air vent, blowhole, respite), abertura (aperture, break, crack, gap, opening, placket, rent, slit). (various references) | |
Swedish | utlopp (issue, outfall, outflow, outgo, outlet). (various references) | |
Turkish | yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, tear), yanardağ ağzı (chimney), yırtmaç (slash, slit), kaçacak delik (ventage), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end), havalandırmak (aerate, air, air-condition, chip, de-aerate, fan, give smth. an airing, let some fresh air into, ventilate, weather), hava deliği (air passage, blowhole, spiracle, vent hole), hava almaya çıkmak (air oneself, go for a blow, take a walk, take an airing), delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, drill, hole, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, slot), delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, stir, ventage, venthole), burun deliği (nostril), belli etmek (argue, evince, express, give vent to, let on, make clear, register, reveal, shadow, shadow forth, shadow out, show, sound, Telegraph), ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, trap, ventage), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, ventilate, yield, yield up), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вхідний отвір, виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, elicit, evince, evolve, exert, find, show, uncover), вияв (demonstration, display, manifestation, outcrop, reposal), випускати (deliver, discharge, emit, give out, issue, loose, omit, outlet, produce, set free, unclasp), зробити отвір, повітряний клапан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lỗ thoát, lỗ thông, lỗ (hole, orifice, scuttle, socket). (various references) | |
Welsh | arllwysfa (outfall, outlet), agorfa (aperture, opening, orifice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | camini, camino, caminum, caminus, erumpo, ex-, spiraculo, spiraculum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 32, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H de gasthr mou wsper askoV gleukouV zewn dedemenoV h wsper fushthr calkewV errhgwV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | En venter meus quasi mustum absque spiraculo quod lagunculas novas disrumpit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lo! my wombe as must withoute venting, that breketh newe litle win vesselys. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 32, Verse 19 |
| Albanian | Ja, gjiri im është si vera që nuk ka një shfrim, si shakujt e rinj, gati për të plasur. |
| Cebuano | Ania karon, ang akong dughan ingon sa vino nga walay hulongawan; Ingon sa bag-ong panit nga sulodlan sa vino nga hapit na mobuto. |
| Croatian | Gle, nutrina mi je k'o mošt zatvoren, k'o nova æe se raspuæi mješina. |
| Danish | som tilbundet Vin er mit Bryst, som nyfyldte Vinsække nær ved at sprænges; |
| Dutch | Ziet, mijn buik is als de wijn, die niet geopend is; gelijk nieuwe lederen zakken zou hij bersten. |
| Finnish | Katso, minun rintani on kuin viini, jolle ei reikää avata, se on pakahtumaisillaan niinkuin nuorella viinillä täytetyt leilit. |
| French | Mon intérieur est comme un vin qui n`a pas d`issue, Comme des outres neuves qui vont éclater. |
| German | Siehe, mein Inneres ist wie der Most, der zugestopft ist, der die neuen Schläuche zerreißt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jika aku diam saja, akan pecahlah aku, seperti kantong yang penuh dengan anggur baru. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwasanya hatiku seperti air anggur yang tiada dibuka, seperti khik baharu yang hendak meletus. |
| Italian | Ecco, dentro di me c'è come vino senza sfogo, come vino che squarcia gli otri nuovi. |
| Maori | Nana, ko toku kopu rite tonu ki te waina kahore nei ona putanga; ki te ipu hou e tata ana ia te pakaru. |
| Norwegian | Mitt indre er som innestengt vin; som nyfylte skinnsekker vil det revne. |
| Portuguese | Eis que o meu peito é como o mosto, sem respiradouro, como odres novos que estão para arrebentar. |
| Rumanian | lquntrul meu este ca un vin care n`are pe unde sq iasq, ca niwte burdufuri noi, gata sq plesneascq. |
| Russian | чПФ, ХФТПВБ НПС, ЛБЛ ЧЙОП ОЕПФЛТЩФПЕ: ПОБ ЗПФПЧБ РТПТЧБФШУС, РПДПВОП ОПЧЩН НЕИБН. |
| Spanish | He aquí que mi interior es como vino sin respiradero, y como odres nuevos va a reventar. |
| Swedish | Ja, mitt inre är såsom instängt vin, likt en lägel med nytt vin är det nära att brista. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vent": ventage, ventages, ventail, ventails, vented, venter, venters, ventifact, ventifacts, ventilate, ventilated, ventilates, ventilating, ventilation, ventilations, ventilator, ventilators, ventilatory, venting, ventless, ventral, ventrally, ventrals, ventricle, ventricles, ventricose, ventricular, ventriculi, ventriculus, ventriloquial, ventriloquially, ventriloquies, ventriloquism, ventriloquisms, ventriloquist, ventriloquistic, ventriloquists, ventriloquize, ventriloquized, ventriloquizes, ventriloquizing, ventriloquy, ventrolateral, ventromedial, vents, venture, ventured, venturer, venturers, ventures, venturesome. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vent": advent, circumvent, coinvent, connivent, convent, dissolvent, event, fervent, insolvent, invent, misevent, nonevent, prevent, reinvent, resolvent, solvent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vent": adventitia, adventitial, adventitias, adventitious, adventitiously, adventive, adventives, advents, adventure, adventured, adventurer, adventurers, adventures, adventuresome, adventuresomeness, adventuresomenesses, adventuress, adventuresses, adventuring, adventurism, adventurisms, adventurist, adventuristic, adventurists, adventurous, adventurously, adventurousness, adventurousnesses, anticonventional, atrioventricular, aventail, aventails, aventurine, aventurines, circumvented, circumventing, circumvention, circumventions, circumvents, coinvented, coinventing, coinventor, coinventors, coinvents, contravention, contraventions, convented, conventicle, conventicler, conventiclers, conventicles. (additional references) | |
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"Vent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evn, ivent, vanet, vanr, vante, vanty, vatn, veat, vect, vedt, veen, veena, veet, vegt, vehn, veint, veit, velt, ven, vene, veng, veni, venk, venl, venn, veno, venta, vente, vento, ventu, venty, venu, venw, veny, venz, veont, vept, vett, vety, veut, vext, viant, vient, vinet, vinit, vint, Vinta, vn, Vne, vont, vpn, vunt, vyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vent" (pronounced ve"nt) |
| 4 | v e" n t | circumvent, event, invent, nonevent, prevent, reinvent. |
| 3 | -e" n t | accent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, Brent, cement, cent, consent, Dement, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, extent, ferment, gent, indent, intent, Kent, lament, lent, malcontent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, occident, outspent, overspent, pent, percent, relent, rent, repent, represent, resent, scent, sent, spent, tent, underwent, unspent, went. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: net, ten, vet. | |
-2 letters: en, et, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: event, vents. | |
+2 letters: advent, events, invent, invert, invest, invite, levant, native, tavern, unvext, vented, venter. | |
+3 letters: advents, centavo, convect, convent, convert, deviant, duvetyn, evenest, evident, eviting, fervent, invents, inverts, invests, invited, invitee, inviter, invites, levants, naivest, naivete, naivety, natives, navette, nervate, novelty, prevent, servant, seventh, seventy, solvent, striven, taverna, taverns, tensive, thriven, unitive, vainest, vantage, varment, vaunted, vaunter, vauntie, vawntie, veinlet, venatic, ventage, ventail, venters, venting, ventral, venture, venturi, verdant, versant, vesting, veteran, vetoing, vetting, viniest, vintage, vintner, violent, vitrine, volante. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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