ventilator
/ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/ noun B2- A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently. · Near-synonym: respirator
- Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
Plural ventilators
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You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is.”
For example, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated with the outside air!”
“They seem to have been of a most interesting character—dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate.
“You saw the ventilator, too?”
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