Ventname

• 1

  A surname from Dutch.

ventnoun詞源 1/vɛnt/

• 1

  An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

  • the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
  • 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.

  • Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
  • 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; cloaca.

• 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.

• 8

  In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

ventverb詞源 1/vɛnt/

• 1

  To allow gases to escape.

  • The stove vents to the outside.
• 2

  To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).

  • In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive.
• 3

  To allow to escape through a vent.

  • Exhaust is vented to the outside.
• 4

  To express a strong emotion.

  • He vents his anger violently.
  • Can we talk? I need to vent.
• 5

  To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

  • Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.
• 6

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

• 7

  Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.

• 8

  slangvideo-gamesTo use a vent in the video game Among Us.

  • We suspect they’ve vented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel.
  • “Among Us” has become ingrained into Generation Z’s culture in such a way that phrases such as “yellow is sus,” “purple vented” or “skip vote” are part of our daily vernacular.

ventnoun詞源 2/vɛnt/

• 1

  Ventriloquism.

ventverb詞源 3/vɛnt/

• 1

  To sell; to vend.

  • Therefore did those nations […]vent such spice.

ventnoun詞源 4/vɛnt/

• 1

  obsoleteA baiting place; an inn.

ventverb詞源 5/vɛnt/

• 1

  medicinesciencesTo ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• ventilation
• ventilator