Vent vs Vest - What's the difference?
vent | vest |
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
A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries.
A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
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, title= (label) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
* 2010 , Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers , Random House, ISBN 9781400067534,
A vestment.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Clothing generally; array; garb.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
* Milton
* Dryden
To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
* Prior
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To invest; to put.
(legal) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
(commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.
* 2005 , Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options , page 104
* 2007 ,
As a numeral vent
is .As an adjective vest is
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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.
Etymology 4
(etyl) .vest
English
(wikipedia vest)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
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- He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest' and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof ' vest if you could still get gunned to death?
- In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
- Not seldom clothed in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
Synonyms
* (garment worn under a shirt) singlet, tank top (US), undershirt (US) * (garment worn over a shirt) waistcoat (British)Hyponyms
* (sleeveless outergarment) safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vestDerived terms
* bulletproof vest * keep one's cards close to one's vest * life vestVerb
(en verb)- Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
- With ether vested , and a purple sky.
- to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
- Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
- The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
- Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
- to vest money in goods, land, or houses
- to vest a person with an estate
- an estate is vested in possession
- (Bouvier)
- My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
- If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest , you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
- Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest .