Purged vs Vented - What's the difference?
purged | vented |
(purge)
An act of .
(medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
(religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
* Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
* Addison
(medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
(medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
(legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
(vent)
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 verbs the difference between purged and vented
is that purged is (purge) while vented is (vent).purged
English
Verb
(head)purge
English
(wikipedia purge)Noun
(en noun)- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- (Arbuthnot)
Verb
(purg)- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
vented
English
Verb
(head)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.