ventとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

A vent (opening) in the wall of a house.

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

   the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 122:

     According to geologists who work in the area, the vents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer.

2. A small aperture.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.

   • 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame:

     Long 'twas doubtful, both so closely pent, / Which first should issue thro' the narrow vent.

3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
4. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
6. A slit in the seam of a garment.
7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.

   Synonym: touch hole

8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

      without the vent of words

    • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

      Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.

派生語

• give vent to
• ridge vent

参考

• cloaca
• seal

動詞

vent (三人称単数 現在形 vents, 現在分詞 venting, 過去形および過去分詞形 vented)

1. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.

   The stove vents to the outside.

2. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.

   Exhaust is vented to the outside.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.

   He vents his anger violently.

   Can we talk? I need to vent.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.

4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares? […] See howe he venteth into the wynd.

語源 2

Clipping of ventriloquism

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

1. Ventriloquism.

派生語

• vent puppet

語源 3

From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).

動詞

vent (三人称単数 現在形 vents, 現在分詞 venting, 過去形および過去分詞形 vented)

1. To sell; to vend.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     Therefore did those nations […] vent such spice.

語源 4

From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

1. (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

語源 5

Clipping.

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.

   I have adjusted the vent settings.

動詞

vent (三人称単数 現在形 vents, 現在分詞 venting, 過去形および過去分詞形 vented)

1. (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

派生語

• venting (n.)
• vented (adj.)

アナグラム

• Env't