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Bleed vs Vent - What's the difference?

bleed | vent |

In transitive terms the difference between bleed and vent

is that bleed is to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids while vent is to allow to escape through a vent.

As verbs the difference between bleed and vent

is that bleed is to lose blood through an injured blood vessel while vent is to allow gases to escape.

As nouns the difference between bleed and vent

is that bleed is an incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia while vent is an opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

bleed

English

Verb

  • (of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
  • :If her nose bleeds try to use ice.
  • To let or draw blood from an animal.
  • To take large amounts of money from.
  • To steadily lose (something vital).
  • :The company was bleeding talent.
  • (of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
  • To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
  • (obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
  • *:
  • *:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
  • (copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
  • :He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
  • To lose sap, gum, or juice.
  • :A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
  • To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
  • *Alexander Pope
  • *:For me the balm shall bleed .
  • (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
  • :Labialization bleeds palatalization.
  • Derived terms

    * bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed white

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
  • A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
  • The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
  • vent

    English

    Etymology 1

    Partly from (etyl) vent, from (etyl) ventus and party from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  • the vent''' of a cask; the '''vent of a mould
  • A small aperture.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Long 'twas doubtful, both so closely pent, / Which first should issue from the narrow vent .
  • 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.
  • * Milton
  • without the vent of words
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.
    Derived terms
    * ridge vent

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To allow gases to escape.
  • The stove vents to the outside.
  • To allow to escape through a vent.
  • Exhaust is vented to the outside.
  • (intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
  • He vents his anger violently.
    Can we talk? I need to vent .
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," 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.
  • To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  • (Spenser)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ventriloquism.
  • Derived terms
    * vent puppet

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) vente, from (etyl) (lena) .

    Noun

  • sale; opportunity to sell; market
  • (Shelton)
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • There is no vent for any commodity but of wool.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sell; to vend.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Therefore did those nations vent such spice.

    Etymology 4

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
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