Usually means: Opening allowing air to escape.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word vent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vent: Merriam-Webster
  3. vent, vent, vent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vent, vent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vent, vent: Wordnik
  8. vent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Vent: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. vent: Wiktionary
  11. vent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. vent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. vent: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. vent: Dictionary.com
  15. vent (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. vent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Vent (album), Vent (radio series), Vent (song), Vent (submarine), Vent (tailoring), Vent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Vent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. vent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. vent: Rhymezone
  21. vent, vent (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. vent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. vent: FreeDictionary.org
  24. vent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. vent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. vent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. vent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. VENT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. vent: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. VENT: French-English Wine Glossary
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  6. Vent: Construction Glossary
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. VENT: Power Engineering

(Note: See vented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
noun:  A small aperture.
noun:  An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
noun:  A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
noun:  The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
noun:  A slit in the seam of a garment.
noun:  The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
noun:  In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
noun:  Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
noun:  Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
verb:  (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
verb:  (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
verb:  To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
verb:  (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
noun:  Ventriloquism.
verb:  To sell; to vend.
noun:  (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
verb:  (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
noun:  A surname from Dutch.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator. [The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.]

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