ventとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /vɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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.
   • Shakespeare

     Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.

   • Alexander Pope

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

3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
4. A verbalized 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; touchhole.
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.
    • Milton

      without the vent of words

    • Shakespeare

      Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.

派生語

• ridge vent

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.

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語源 2

Clipping of ventriloquism

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

1. Ventriloquism.

派生語

• vent puppet

語源 3

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

名詞

vent

1. sale; opportunity to sell; market

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   • Sir W. Temple

     There is no vent for any commodity but of wool.

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.
   • Sir Walter Raleigh

     Therefore did those nations vent such spice.

語源 4

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

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

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

名詞

vent (複数形 vents)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Ventilation or ventilator.

   vent settings

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