Word Finder - vent

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An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

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the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould

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A small aperture.

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The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.

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A verbalized frustration.

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The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.

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A slit in the seam of a garment.

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The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

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In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

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Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

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Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

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To allow gases to escape.

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The stove vents to the outside.

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To allow to escape through a vent.

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Exhaust is vented to the outside.

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To express a strong emotion.

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Can we talk? I need to vent.

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To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

There was one vent in the ceiling, not large enough for her hand let alone her body.

He hung up before the Deans could vent their frustration.

And this thought occurred to him just because he himself desired a victim, something on which to vent his rage.

The only remaining active vent of the once highly volcanic Nikko district.

After hearing the details of Anatole's marriage from Pierre, and giving vent to her anger against Anatole in words of abuse, Marya Dmitrievna told Pierre why she had sent for him.

She had to eat, sleep, think, speak, weep, work, give vent to her anger, and so on, merely because she had a stomach, a brain, muscles, nerves, and a liver.

Can we wonder that he gave vent to his anger 's and declared that Ney had ruined France?

He had evidently run out of that room to give vent to the sobs that were choking him.

He did not sing like a trained singer who knows he is listened to, but like the birds, evidently giving vent to the sounds in the same way that one stretches oneself or walks about to get rid of stiffness, and the sounds were always high-pitched, mournful, delicate, and almost feminine, and his face at such times was very serious.

If the old man was going to sulk, Dean thought, might as well get it out in the open and allow him to vent a little steam.

He looked on poetry as a vent for overcharged feeling, or a full imagination, or some imaginative regret, which had not found their natural outlet in life and action.

Another granite area appears on the south side of the road between Brodick and Shiskine, where it is associated with granophyre and quartz-diorite and traverses the volcanic vent of post-Cretaceous or Tertiary age already described.

In the younger ranks of the educated classes this state of things produced keen dissatisfaction, which soon found vent in revolutionary agitation.

The central vent displays considerable activity, while the rocky walls are stained with red, yellow and white deposits from numerous minor vents.

Two of the five compartments into which it is divided by walls of deeply striated volcanic ash are constantly emitting steam, while a new vent displaying great activity has been opened at the base of the cone on the south side.

Pseudopus, the glass-snake, from Morocco and the Balkan peninsula to Burma and Fokien; also in the U.S.A., with the limbs reduced to a pair of tiny spikes near the vent, and a lateral fold along the snake-like body.

The peculiar odour evolved by many rodents is due to the secretions of special glands, which may open into the prepuce, as in Mus, Microtus and Cricetus, or into the rectum, as in Arctomys and Thryonomys, or into the passage common to both, as in the beaver, or into pouches opening near the vent, as in hares, agoutis and jerboas.

T, Part of resonating pipe, the upper end with cap and vent hole being shown separately at the side.

Resting under a solitary broom bush (a kind of genista), he gave vent to his disappointment in a prayer for death.

The vent is below the anterior half of the first dorsal fin.

He was rescued at last from this monkish idleness by his inborn genius, which, not being able to give free vent to its poetical inspirations under the crushing weight of bigotry, claimed a greater share in the legitimate enjoyments of life and the appreciation of the beauties of nature, as well as a more enlightened faith of tolerance, benevolence, and liberality.

He gave vent to his irritability by lamentations so grotesquely exaggerated as to make it difficult to estimate the real extent of the evil.

The former extension of Rhaetic, Liassic and Cretaceous formations in the island is indicated by the presence of fragments of these strata in a large volcanic vent on the plateau, on the south side of the road leading from Brodick to Shiskine.

Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere.

The archipelago is divided into two groups - the Leeward (lies sous le Vent) and the Windward Islands (Iles du Vent) - by a clear channel of 60 m.

Under Ventidius Cumanus (48-52) the mutual hatred of Jews and Romans, Samaritans and Jews, found vent in insults and bloodshed.

The air around him was cold like it was around an air conditioning vent.

Just under half the blocks awarded for license had a coal bed methane or vent gas focus.

The vent for the tumble drier also looks unsightly!

A second way to access the room is through a vent.

Kwik Sew also offers a button-down lab coat that features three pockets, a back vent, and a back-button belt.

She is off the vent after being off for 2 weeks and then being put back on due to her developing a staph infection.

The vent for the tumble drier also looks unsightly !

Simple tiled floor with heating vent grilles down the aisle of the nave.

For heat you can get automatic vent openers around £ 20.00, solar powered fans (more sun more whir) and shading.

The top of this vent shaft also carries the base mount for a Ground Zero Indicator (GZI).

To identify a direct water system you will find the end of the vent pipe fixed above your cold water tank.

He pointed his nostrils to the sky and gave vent to a mighty blast of white-hot fire.

There are some who rapidly vent their frustrations as a way to find order through catharsis – a chaotic way of feeling better.

Therefore, the first thing is to loosen the battery vent caps, ventilate the charging area.

It's healthy to vent your feelings, but only to other adults and outside the hearing range of the child.

Also, make sure the crib is a safe distance from any heating and cooling vent or radiator.

If you need to vent about something, go right ahead, that's what friends are for, but don't make it a habit.

Sometimes you don't want to vent, but just talk about others things or let someone else tell you how his or her day is going.

Take some time to call a loved one and vent or ask to meet up somewhere to talk in person.

Another fun way to relieve stress is to talk to other people in your situation so you can vent.

Many women feel they do not want to discuss intimate feelings and emotions with a stranger, but may feel equally unable to vent their feelings to a parent or loved one.

The embarrassing disgraced teen moments mentioned before are minor and most of your friends and family will forget that you tripped and fell pretty quickly once the vent is past.

Talking to someone whether it's a friend, family member or therapist, will help you vent many of the feelings you are holding on to.

A full mesh back and vent zones ensure breathability while anti-odor technology keeps bacteria at bay.