Ventilate

Definitions: Ventilate

Ventilate

Verb

1. Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms".

2. Give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers".

Date "ventilate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ventilate \Ven"ti*late\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ventilated; present participle verb or noun Ventilating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Ventilate

Synonyms: air (v), air out (v), give vent (v), vent (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Air	Verb: air, ventilate, fan. (wind).
Beginning	Handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake.
Cleanness	Disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.
Dissertation	Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.
Inquiry	Question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question.
Reasoning,	Open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.
Wind	Fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ventilate

English words defined with "ventilate": brattice ♦ Eventilate ♦ Ventilating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ventilate": air stack, Attic Vent ♦ Closing Volume ♦ dadding ♦ emt-paramedic ♦ mine ventilation auxiliary fan ♦ Ventilate a Subject ♦ Wingwall. (references)

Etymologies containing "ventilate": Eventilate ♦ Ventail. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The eustachian tube is usually closed but opens regularly to ventilate or replenish the air in the middle ear. This tube also equalizes middle ear air pressure in response to air pressure changes in the environment. (references)
		However, a eustachian tube that is blocked by swelling of its lining or plugged with mucus from a cold or for some other reason cannot open to ventilate the middle ear. The lack of ventilation may allow fluid from the tissue that lines the middle ear to accumulate. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ventilate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Ventilate" is used about 33 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.94%	31	62,296
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.06%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	33	N/A

Expressions using "ventilate": ventilate a subject ♦ ventilate the question. Additional references.
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.

Language		Translations for "ventilate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpalos ndjenjat, hedh për diskutim, ajros (air), ajroj (aerate, aerify). (various references)

Arabic		‏هوى حجرة, ‏ناقش (agitate, argue, bat, canvass, converse, debate, discuss, dispute, join issue with, moot, oppugn, powwow, question, set about, speak, talk, talk over), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, voice), ‏أعلن عن (cry, placard), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try). (various references)

Bulgarian		разяснявам (clarify, elucidate, explicate, expound, interpret, set forth, unscramble), обсъждам (agitate, argue, bethink, confer, consult, deliberate, discuss, parley, powwow, reason, revolve, talk about, talk over), проветрявам (aerate, air, sweeten, weather), правя публично достояние, подлагам на разискване, излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, show off, sink, state, subject). (various references)

Chinese		通风 (aeration, Airy, Breezy, Ventilated, Ventilating), 通風 (airy, ventilation). (various references)

Czech		ventilovat (air, discuss), vìtrat, přetřásat, okyslièovat (oxidate, oxidize, oxygenate, oxygenize). (various references)

Danish		ventilere (to ventilate), lufte (to ventilate), en hjaelpeanordning til ventilationen boer opsaettes ved brydningsfronten, da der i modsat fald vil samle sig giftige gasarter (the auxiliary ventilation should ventilate the face otherwise it will keep the noxious gases at the face). (various references)

Dutch		uitluchten (aerate, air out, give an airing), spuien (aerate, air out, blow off, give an airing, sluicing), luchten (aerate, aeration, air out, give an airing). (various references)

Esperanto		ventoli, aerumi (air out). (various references)

Faeroese		lufta (aerate, air out, give an airing). (various references)

Farsi		پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), هوادادن به , تهویه کردن , بادخورکردن (Air). (various references)

Finnish		tuulettaa (air, give an airing). (various references)

French		ventiler (to ventilate), aérer (to ventilate). (various references)

German		ventilieren (air, examine), lüften (aerate, aeration, air, air out, breath of wind, cranking, give an airing, lift, lift up, motoring, raise, to air, to ventilate, ventilation), belüften (aerate, air, to aerate, to ventilate). (various references)

Greek		αερίζω (aerate, air, to ventilate, weather). (various references)

Hebrew		לאורר (aerate, air, fan), לרוח (aerate, make space, space out). (various references)

Hungarian		szellõztet (aerate, air, vent, wind), levegõztet. (various references)

Italian		ventilare (aerate, air, air out, fan, give, give an airing, to ventilate), arieggiare (aerate, air, air out, give, give an airing, wind), aerare (aerate, air, air out, give, give an airing, to ventilate). (various references)

Korean		송�'�하십시�". (various references)

Manx		geayaghey (ventilation). (various references)

Pig Latin		entilatevay

Portuguese		ventilar (aerate, air out, fan, give an airing, to ventilate), arejar (aerate, air out, fan, give an airing, wind). (various references)

Romanian		ventila (aerate, air, fan, float, spread), dezbate în public, aerisi (aerate, air, weather). (various references)

Russian		вентилировать (ventilating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ventilirati (air), provetriti (aerate, air). (various references)

Spanish		ventilar (aerate, air, air out, fan, give an airing, to ventilate). (various references)

Swedish		vädra (about doogs, air, scent, smell, sniff, snuff, wind). (various references)

Turkish		oksijen vermek (oxygenate, oxygenize), havalandırmak (aerate, air, air-condition, chip, de-aerate, fan, give smth. an airing, let some fresh air into, vent, weather), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, purport, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state), açıkça tartışmak, açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, yield, yield up). (various references)

Ukranian		вентилювати (aerate, air), обговорювати (air, bandy about, canvass, confer, consider, debate, dispute, moot, natter, parley, reason), провітрювати (aerate, air, wind). (various references)

Welsh		gwyntyllio (winnow), awyro (aerate, air). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ventilate": ventilated, ventilates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ventilate": hyperventilate. (additional references)
	Words containing "ventilate": hyperventilated, hyperventilates, unventilated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ventilate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ventile, ventillate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ventilate" (pronounced ve"ntulā't or ve"nulā't)
5	-t u l ā' t	distillate, mutilate, titillate.
4	-u l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, undulate, vacillate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
4	-u l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-t-t-v"
	-1 letter: levitate.
	-2 letters: elative, entitle, lineate, naivete, navette, veinlet, ventail.
	-3 letters: alevin, alvine, entail, lateen, latent, latten, lattin, leaven, levant, litten, native, nettle, talent, telnet, tenail, teniae, tentie, tineal, valine, veinal, velate, venial, vineal, vittae, vittle.
	-4 letters: alien, aline, alive, anele, anile, anvil, atilt, eaten, elain, elate, elint, elite, enate, entia, event, evite, inlet, laten, latte, leant, leave, levin, liane, lieve, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nieve, nival, taint, telae, telia, tenet, tenia, tinea, titan, title, valet, veena, venae, venal, vinal, vitae, vital, vitta.
	-5 letters: alee, alit, anil, ante, anti, eave, elan, etna, even, evil, ilea, lain, lane, late, lati, lave, lean, leet, lent, leva, lien, line, lint, lite, live, nail, nave, neat, nett, neve, nevi, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tate, teal, teat, teel, teen, tela, tele, tent, tile, tilt, tine, tint, vail, vain, vale, vane, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vial, vile, vina, vine, vita.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: ventilated, ventilates.
	+2 letters: alternative, attentively, eventuality, tentatively.
	+3 letters: alternatives, inveterately, unventilated, vegetational.
	+4 letters: alternatively, contemplative, eventualities, inadvertently, inattentively, interactively, interpolative, talkativeness, televangelist, terminatively.
	+5 letters: antireflective, contemplatives, hyperventilate, intervalometer, intervertebral, preventability, televangelists, ultrasensitive.
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