Broach vs Vent - What's the difference?
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A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. (rfex)
(masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
A spit for cooking food.
* Francis Bacon
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
(senseid) (figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
* 1913 ,
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
To be overcome or submerged by a wave or surge of water.
English terms with multiple etymologies
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
A small aperture.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
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
* Shakespeare
To allow gases to escape.
To allow to escape through a vent.
(intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
* 2013 June 18, , "
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
sale; opportunity to sell; market
* Sir W. Temple
As a verb broach
is to broach.As a numeral vent is
.broach
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) broche, fromNoun
(es)- He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
- (Forby)
- (Knight)
Verb
(es)- French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
- I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
- Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
- I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
Etymology 2
(en)Verb
(es)- The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
- Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.
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vent
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vent, from (etyl) ventus and party from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the vent''' of a cask; the '''vent of a mould
- Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents .
- Long 'twas doubtful, both so closely pent, / Which first should issue from the narrow vent .
- without the vent of words
- Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.
Derived terms
* ridge ventVerb
(en verb)- The stove vents to the outside.
- Exhaust is vented to the outside.
- He vents his anger violently.
- Can we talk? I need to vent .
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.
- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
Derived terms
* vent puppetEtymology 3
(etyl) vente, from (etyl) (lena) .Noun
- (Shelton)
- There is no vent for any commodity but of wool.