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vent

See also: Vent and vènt

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /vɛnt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1 edit

Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.

Noun edit

vent (plural vents)

 
A vent (opening) in the wall of a house.
  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
    the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
  2. A small aperture.
  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.
  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.
    Synonym: touch hole
  8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
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vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

  1. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
    The stove vents to the outside.
  2. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
    Exhaust is vented to the outside.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
    He vents his anger violently.
    Can we talk? I need to vent.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
    • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:
      But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
      Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares? […] See howe he venteth into the wynd.
  5. (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
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Etymology 2 edit

Clipping of ventriloquism

Noun edit

vent (plural vents)

  1. Ventriloquism.
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Etymology 3 edit

From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).

Verb edit

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

  1. To sell; to vend.

Etymology 4 edit

From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).

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vent (plural vents)

  1. (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

Etymology 5 edit

Clipping.

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vent (plural vents)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
    I have adjusted the vent settings.

Verb edit

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Catalan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

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vent m (plural vents)

  1. wind (movement of air)
  2. (castells) a casteller in the pinya standing between the laterals, and holding the right leg of one segon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents

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vent

  1. imperative of vente

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Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”), Low German Fent (“young fellow”), Saterland Frisian Wäänt (“boy, lad”).

  • Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþijō (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English fēþa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible.
  • Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) +‎ genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.

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vent m (plural venten, diminutive ventje n)

  1. chap, fellow
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  • Javindo: fen, fent

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

vent

  1. inflection of venten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French vent, from Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

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Noun edit

vent m (plural vents)

  1. wind
    moulin à vent ― windmill
    petite pluie abat grand vent ― a little kindness goes a long way (literally, “a little rain abates a great wind”)
    rose des vents ― compass rose (literally, “rose of the winds”)
    qui sème le vent récolte la tempête ― who sows the wind harvests the tempest
  2. (euphemistic) flatulence
    Synonym: (neutral) pet
  3. (uncountable) empty words, hot air
    Synonym: paroles en l’air
    Toutes ces promesses, c’est du vent. ― Those are empty promises.
  4. (slang)
    se prendre un vent ― to be completely blanked, to receive no answer, to be rebuffed by having one's advances ignored
    mettre un vent à quelqu’un, faire un vent à quelqu’un, foutre un vent à quelqu’un ― to ignore someone, to give someone the cold shoulder, to brush someone off, to diss someone
    un gros vent, un énorme vent ― a blast, a verbal attack or severe reprimand
  5. (countable, chiefly in the plural) wind instrument
    Synonym: instrument à vent

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Lombard edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Milanese) IPA(key): /ˈvɛːnt/

Noun edit

vent m

  1. wind

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 399: “il vento; i venti” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Arrighi, Cletto (1896) Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] ‎[1] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 800
  • Angiolini, Francesco (1897) Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia‎[2] (in Italian), page 903

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus.

Noun edit

vent m (plural vens or vents)

  1. wind

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  • vent on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norman edit

Etymology edit

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

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  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun edit

vent m (plural vents)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) wind

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

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vent

  1. neuter singular of ven

Verb edit

vent

  1. imperative of vente

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

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vent

  1. imperative of venta

Etymology 2 edit

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Participle edit

vent (definite singular and plural vente)

  1. past participle of venna

Participle edit

vent

  1. neuter singular of vend

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vent

  1. supine of venna

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vent

  1. neuter singular of ven

Occitan edit

Etymology edit

From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.

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vent m (plural vents)

  1. wind (movement of air)

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Old French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ventus.

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Noun edit

vent oblique singular, m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)

  1. wind (movement of air)

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From vent d'aval:

Romansch edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ventus.

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vent m

  1. wind
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