vent

Definitions

• An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
• A small aperture.
• The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
• A verbalized frustration.
• The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
• 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; touchhole.
• In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
• Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
• Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.