Dictionary Entry
vent
vent is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sale; opportunity to sell; market. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
- 2transitive verb
To sell; to vend.
- 3noun
A baiting place; an inn.
- 4intransitive verb
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- 5noun
A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
- 6noun
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
- 7noun
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
- 8noun
Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- 9noun
Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- 10noun
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- 11transitive verb
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
- 12transitive verb
To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
- 13transitive verb
To utter; to report; to publish.
- 14transitive verb
To scent, as a hound.
- 15transitive verb
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
- 16noun
activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
"she had no other outlet for her feelings"
"he gave vent to his anger"
- 17noun
external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- 18noun
a hole for the escape of gas or air
- 19noun
a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- 20noun
a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
Synonyms
- 21verb
expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
"air the old winter clothes"
"air out the smoke-filled rooms"
- 22verb
give expression or utterance to
"She vented her anger"
"The graduates gave vent to cheers"
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