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

1. noun. Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
2. transitive verb. To sell; to vend.
3. noun. A baiting place; an inn.
4. intransitive verb. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
7. noun. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
8. noun. Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
9. noun. Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
10. noun. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
11. transitive verb. To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
12. transitive verb. To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
13. transitive verb. To utter; to report; to publish.
14. transitive verb. To scent, as a hound.
15. transitive verb. To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
16. noun. activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

    "she had no other outlet for her feelings"

    "he gave vent to his anger"

    Synonyms: outlet, release

17. noun. external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
18. noun. a hole for the escape of gas or air

    Synonyms: blowhole, venthole

19. noun. a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
20. noun. a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

    Synonyms: volcano

21. verb. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen

    "air the old winter clothes"

    "air out the smoke-filled rooms"

    Synonyms: air, ventilate

22. verb. give expression or utterance to

    "She vented her anger"

    "The graduates gave vent to cheers"

    Synonyms: ventilate

Synonyms

outlet, release, blowhole, venthole, volcano, air, ventilate

Common word forms

vents, vented, venter, venting, ventless

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