meaning of vent
1. Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
2. To sell; to vend.
3. A baiting place; an inn.
4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
5. 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. The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
8. Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
9. Fig. : Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
11. To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
12. To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
13. To utter; to report; to publish.
14. To scent, as a hound.
15. To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
16. activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his
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