| 单词 | to find, get, have, make, take, or want vent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find, get, have, make, take, or want vent a. The action, usually on the part of something confined or pent up in a comparatively small space, of escaping, or passing out; means, power, or opportunity to do this; issue, outlet. Chiefly in phrases with verbs, as to find, get, have, make, take, or want vent. (Cf. senses 4, 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of something confined ventinga1382 eventingc1450 vent1558 excursion1579 escape1874 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 12 b Stop well the said violle, that nothing maie take vent. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K Ye tail of the siluer pipe stretcht itselfe into the mouth of a great paire of belowes, where it was close soldered, and bailde about with yron, [that] it coulde not stirre or haue anie vent betwixt. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. Fathers in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 508 New Wine..wanting vent, Blowes-vp the Bung or doth the Vessell rent. 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw ii. 18 By reason of the Suns opening the earth, and making vent. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. vi. 247 That Fire of Sulphur, being pent in without vent or respiration, shall send forth a poysonous scent. 1682 Art & Myst. of Vintners 58 Beat them and put them into your Wines, so let it rest with Vent, and it will be pursued. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 263 They [waters] got vent chiefly in the night, when in an horizontal position. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 24 The smoke found ample vent through the holes. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1463/1 Blow, the forcing of displaced air through the molten metal from insufficient vent. < as lemmas |
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