1. vent - Noun
2. vent - Verb
3. Vent - Proper noun
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
To sell; to vend.
A baiting place; an inn.
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.
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
To utter; to report; to publish.
To scent, as a hound.
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIntellectual 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. Georges Bataille
True courage scorns To vent her prowess in a storm of words; And, to the valiant, actions speak alone. Tobias Smollett
Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity... and here I am, reborn. Witold Gombrowicz
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. Abigail Adams
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone. Cesare Pavese
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. Italian Proverb