vent

vent

See also: Vent and vènt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 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.

Noun

vent (plural 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: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 1011870211, page 41:

     There, at one Paſſage, oft you might ſurvey / A Lye and Truth contending for the vvay; / And long 'tvvas doubtful, both ſo cloſely pent, / VVhich firſt ſhould iſſue thro the narrovv Vent: […]

3. An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas 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 X”, in Paradise Lost. […], 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 (date written), 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.

Derived terms

• fissure vent
• give vent to
• O'Shea's vent barnacle
• ridge vent

 

Translations

an opening through which gases, especially air, can pass

Bulgarian: отвор (bg) m (otvor), отдушник (bg) m (otdušnik) Czech: průduch (cs) m Esperanto: fenestreto Finnish: venttiili (fi), aukko (fi) French: bouche d'aération Galician: bufarda (gl) f Georgian: გასასვლელი (gasasvleli), სავენტილაციო გასასვლელი (savenṭilacio gasasvleli) German: Luftloch (de) n, Öffnung (de) f Hebrew: אַוְרָר‎ (he) Hungarian: szellőzőnyílás, szellőzőlyuk, szellőzőrostély, szellőző Irish: gaothaire m Italian: sfogo (it) m, sfiatatoio (it) m, bocchetta (it) f Latin: spīrāmen n, spīrāmentum n Macedonian: о́твор m (ótvor) Manx: towl m Maori: aumanga, putanga hau, koropihanga Portuguese: respiradouro m Russian: вентиляцио́нное отве́рстие n (ventiljaciónnoje otvérstije), выходно́е отве́рстие n (vyxodnóje otvérstije), отду́шина (ru) f (otdúšina) Spanish: ventilación (es) f Tagalog: lilong (tl)

an opening in a volcano from which lava flows

Czech: jícen (cs) m Faroese: goshálsur m Finnish: purkautumisaukko French: cheminée (fr) German: Ausbruchkanal m Hungarian: nyílás (hu) Italian: camino (it) m Russian: же́рло вулка́на n (žérlo vulkána) Spanish: chimenea (es) f

a verbalized frustration

Bulgarian: отдушник (bg) m (otdušnik) Czech: výlev m Hungarian: szabad folyás Italian: sfogo (it) m Russian: излива́ние (ru) n (izlivánije), выраже́ние (ru) n (vyražénije), вы́ход (ru) m (výxod)

the excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates

Czech: kloaka (cs) f Finnish: kloaakki (fi), viemärisuoli (fi) French: cloaque (fr) Italian: ano (it) m Russian: ана́льное отве́рстие n (análʹnoje otvérstije) Scottish Gaelic: màs m Spanish: cloaca (es) f, ano (es) m

a slit in the seam of a garment

Hungarian: slicc (hu), hasíték (hu) Turkish: yırtmaç (tr)

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Spanish: (please verify) abertura (es) f

See also

• cloaca
• seal

Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle 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.

5. (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.

Translations

to allow gases to escape

Bulgarian: изпускам (bg) (izpuskam) Czech: vypustit pf, vypouštět impf Finnish: purkaa (fi) French: évacuer (fr) German: entlüften (de) Hungarian: szellőzik (hu) Russian: выпуска́ть (ru) impf (vypuskátʹ), вы́пустить (ru) pf (výpustitʹ) Turkish: havalandırmak (tr)

to allow to escape through a vent

Czech: vyvětrat pf, ventilovat impf, vyvětrávat impf French: ventiler (fr) German: entlüften (de) Hungarian: szellőztet (hu), kiszellőztet (hu)

to express a strong emotion

Bulgarian: давам израз (davam izraz) Catalan: desfogar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 發洩／发泄 (zh), 發泄／发泄 (zh) (fāxiè) Czech: vypustit pf ("anger" - zlost, hněv) Dutch: ventileren (nl) Finnish: purkaa tunteitaan French: donner libre cours (fr), manifester (fr), s'épancher (fr) German: ablassen (de), äußern (de), ausdrücken (de) Hungarian: kiönt (hu), (on someone or something) zúdít, rázúdít, kitölt (hu) Italian: sfogarsi Maori: ruke Occitan: far d'escampa, se desfogar Portuguese: desabafar (pt), extravasar (pt) Russian: излива́ть (ru) impf (izlivátʹ), изли́ть (ru) pf (izlítʹ) ("soul" - душу (dušu)), срыва́ть (ru) impf (sryvátʹ), сорва́ть (ru) pf (sorvátʹ) ("anger" - гнев (gnev), злобу (zlobu)), выража́ть (ru) impf (vyražátʹ), вы́разить (ru) pf (výrazitʹ) Spanish: desahogar (es)

Etymology 2

Clipping of ventriloquism

Noun

vent (plural vents)

1. Ventriloquism.

Derived terms

• vent puppet

Etymology 3

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

Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle 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.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

vent (plural vents)

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

Etymology 5

Clipping.

Noun

vent (plural vents)

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

   I have adjusted the vent settings.

Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

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

Derived terms

• venting (n.)
• vented (adj.)

Anagrams

• Env't

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈben/

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• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

vent m (plural vents)

1. wind (movement of air).
2. (castells) A casteller in the pinya standing between the laterals, and holding the right leg of one segon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents.

Derived terms

• bon vent i barca nova
• esventar
• molí de vent
• vendaval
• ventada
• ventar
• venteguera
• ventejar
• vent estel·lar
• ventijol
• ventós
• vent solar

 

References

• “vent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “vent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛnˀd̥]

Verb

vent

1. imperative of vente

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”), Low German Fent (“young fellow”), Saterland Frisian Wäänt (“boy, lad”).

• Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþijō (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English fēþa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible.
• Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) +‎ genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.

Noun

vent m (plural venten, diminutive ventje n)

1. chap, fellow

Descendants

• Javindo: fen, fent

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vent

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of venten
2. imperative of venten

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French

Etymology

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Noun

vent m (plural vents)

1. atmospheric wind
2. (euphemistic) a flatulence

   Synonym: (neutral) pet

3. (uncountable) empty words, hot air

   Toutes ces promesses, c'est du vent. ― Those are empty promises.

   Synonym: paroles en l'air

Derived terms

• aller dans le sens du vent
• à tout vent
• avoir le vent en poupe
• avoir vent
• bon vent
• comme le vent
• contre vents et marées
• dans le vent
• du vent
• en coup de vent
• faire du vent
• instrument à vent
• le nez au vent
• moulin à vent
• petite pluie abat grand vent
• qui sème le vent récolte la tempête
• rapide comme le vent
• rose des vents
• sentir le vent
• sous le vent
• vent debout
• vent dominant
• vent interstellaire
• vent stellaire
• vent travers
• voir venir le vent

 

Related terms

• éventer
• instrument à vent
• moulin à vent
• vent arrière
• venter
• venteux
• ventilateur
• ventôse
• vents contraires
• vent solaire

 

See also

• air
• courant

Further reading

• “vent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Noun

vent m (plural vents)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) wind

Derived terms

• au vent (“windward”)
• aver l'vent souôs vèrgue (“to scud before the wind”)
• pînchi l'vent (“to hug the wind”)
• pouque à vent (“set of bagpipes”)
• r'aver san vent (“to get one's breath back, get one's wind back”)
• ventaïr (“to be windy, blow”)

 

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

vent

1. neuter singular of ven

Verb

vent

1. imperative of vente

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛnt/

Verb

vent

1. imperative of venta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛnt/

Participle

vent (definite singular and plural vente)

1. past participle of venna

Participle

vent

1. neuter singular of vend

Verb

vent

1. supine of venna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːnt/

Adjective

vent

1. neuter singular of ven

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

vent m (plural vents)

1. wind (movement of air)

Related terms

• esventar
• ventada
• ventar
• ventós

 

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvent/, /ˈvant/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

vent m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)

1. wind (movement of air)
   • circa 1110, Benedeit, Le Voyage de saint Brandan:

     Un meis sanz vent nagerent tut plein

     They sailed for a whole month without wind

Descendants

• Bourguignon: vant
• → English: vent
• French: vent
• Norman: vent
• Walloon: vint

From vent d'aval

• → Galician: vendaval
• → Portuguese: vendaval
• → Spanish: vendaval