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US
/ˈvɛnt/
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[ UK /vˈɛnt/ ]
[ UK /vˈɛnt/ ]
NOUN
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activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
he gave vent to his anger
she had no other outlet for her feelings - a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
VERB
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give expression or utterance to
She vented her anger
The graduates gave vent to cheers -
expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
air out the smoke-filled rooms
air the old winter clothes
How To Use vent In A Sentence
- He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
- People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online. Times, Sunday Times
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
- In order to prevent the pipe buckling at the sagbend a horizontal tension was applied to the pipe by tensioners situated on the deck of the vessel.
- Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
- The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax