vent
/vɛnt/ noun C1- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. · the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
- A small aperture.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Plural vents
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When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and then Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.
I would fain fix the source of it on man that I may no longer vent reproaches upon Heaven.”
But beneath this superficial calm there were in the heart of the young man, and perhaps in that of the old man, many repressed desires, many stifled sighs, which found vent when Faria was left alone, and when Edmond returned to his cell.
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