vent

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
    — the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
  2. Clipping of ventilation or ventilator. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,colloquial
    — I have adjusted the vent settings.
  3. A baiting place; an inn. obsolete
  4. Ventriloquism.
  5. A small aperture.
    — Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
  6. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
  7. A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
  8. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
  9. A slit in the seam of a garment.
  10. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
  11. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  12. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  13. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
    — without the vent of words
  14. Discharge, efflux obsolete,rare
    — Whenever, in cases of the morbus mucosus, the vent of urine is impeded, or if the urine itself is morbid in quality, the result […] is that there is a sense of heat and pain in the medulla spinalis, which is opposite to the kidneys.
动词 v.
  1. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation. colloquial
  2. To sell; to vend.
    — Therefore did those nations […]vent such spice.
  3. To allow gases to escape. intransitive
    — The stove vents to the outside.
  4. To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.). transitive
    — In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive.
  5. To allow to escape through a vent. transitive
    — Exhaust is vented to the outside.
  6. To express a strong emotion. intransitive,transitive
    — He vents his anger violently.
  7. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
    — Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.
  8. To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca. transitive
  9. Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air. intransitive
  10. To use a vent in the video game Among Us. intransitive,slang
    — We suspect they’ve vented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 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.
词源 2
Clipping of ventriloquism.
词源 3
From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
词源 4
From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).
词源 5
Clipping.
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