vent – English noun declension

English noun forms of vent

Noun: vent
Singularvent
Pluralvents

Sample Sentences

  • the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould
  • According to geologists who work in the area, the vents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer. [2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 122:]
  • Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
  • There, at one Paſſage, oft you might ſurvey / A Lye and Truth contending for the vvay; / And long 'tvvas doubtful, both ſo cloſely pent, / VVhich firſt ſhould iſſue thro the narrovv Vent: […] [1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 41:]
  • without the vent of words [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • Whenever, in cases of the morbus mucosus, the vent of urine is impeded, or if the urine itself is morbid in quality, the result […] is that there is a sense of heat and pain in the medulla spinalis, which is opposite to the kidneys. [1825, John Fosbroke, Practical Observations on Certain Pathological Relations which Exist between the Kidneys and Other Organs of the Human Body:]
  • she had two more teeth out, with vent of pus from bicuspid [1908, Kenneth Weldon Goadby, “Two Cases Of Acute Pyorrhoea Alveolaris Treated By A Specific Vaccine”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 2486:]

Etymology

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. See: Latin Nouns 'ventus', French Nouns 'vent', Spanish Nouns 'viento'.

Verbs referencing "vent"

Spanish Nouns viento.