When you vent, you let something out, whether it's hot air or your feelings. If you vent your feelings, you let out a strong and sometimes angry emotion and just say what you think.
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Noun
activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger"
Noun
external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
Noun
a hole for the escape of gas or air
Noun
a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
Noun
a fissure in the earth''s crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
Verb
expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms"
Verb
give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers"
n.
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
v. t.
To sell; to vend.
n.
A baiting place; an inn.
v. i.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
n.
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.
n.
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
n.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is
communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
n.
Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length
of the same passage in feet.
n.
Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or
privacy; outlet.
n.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression;
publication; utterance.
v. t.
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage
or outlet to.
v. t.
To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to
utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
v. t.
To utter; to report; to publish.
v. t.
To scent, as a hound.
v. t.
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a
mold.
Vent
There is no vent for any commodity but of wool.
Vent
Therefore did those nations vent such spice.
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Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
Long't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent.2. Specifically: --
Without the vent of words.
Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.
Vent
The queen of heaven did thus her fury vent.3.
By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies.
Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations.4.
Ventage
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
To sell; to vend.
A baiting place; an inn.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape;
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
Usage Examples
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Other Usage ExamplesI get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
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