Vent vs Vext - What's the difference?
vent | vext |
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
(archaic) (vex)
* What happiness to reign a lonely king,
Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* [...] and thence
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"
English irregular simple past forms
As a numeral vent
is .As a verb vext is
(archaic) (vex).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.
Etymology 4
(etyl) .vext
English
Verb
(head)Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"