ventilator
/ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/
ventilator noun: a device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
Noun
ventilator (plural ventilators)
- A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
- Near-synonym: respirator
- Synonyms:
- respirator
- Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
- A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188
- A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
ventilator meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
ventilator in Hindi
- ventilator, respirator
- वेंटिलेटर veṇṭileṭar
- ventilator
- पंखा paṅkhā
ventilator in Marathi
- ventilator
- पंखा paṅkhā
ventilator in Urdu
- ventilator
- پنکھا paṅkhā
ventilator in Malayalam
- വായുപ്രവേശകയന്ത്രം, വായുസഞ്ചാരസൂത്രം
More languagesFewer languages
- ventilator in Kannada
- ಕಿಂಡಿ, ಗವಾಕ್ಷಿ, ವಾತಾಯನ, ಗಾಳಿ ಬೆಳಕಿನ ಕಿಂಡಿ
- ventilator in Tagalog
- bentilador
- ventilator in Arabic
- مِرْوَحَة mirwaḥa
- ventilator in Malay
- kipas
- ventilator in Indonesian
- penggemar
- ventilator in Vietnamese
- máy thông gió, bộ thông gió
Examples of ventilator in a sentence
- Long lines formed outside smaller village clinics, and medical equipment like beds and ventilators ran short.
- These double cannula tubes may be fenestrated or unfenestrated with a connector that fits with 15 mm ventilator tubing.
- In hospital, ventilators were bought, stocks were piled and thousand of man-hours were spent sitting on committees and drafting doomsday plans.
Synonyms of ventilator
Forms of ventilator
| plural | ventilators |
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Origin of ventilator
From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
Words formed from ventilator
Questions about ventilator
- What does ventilator mean?
- Ventilator means a device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- What is ventilator in Hindi?
- Ventilator in Hindi is वेंटिलेटर (veṇṭileṭar), पंखा (paṅkhā). See Ventilator meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ventilator?
- Ventilator is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ventilator?
- Ventilator is pronounced /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/.
- What is the plural of ventilator?
- The plural of ventilator is ventilators.
Words near ventilator in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ventilator (page history and authors); पंखा (Hindi) (page history and authors); पंखा (Marathi) (page history and authors); پنکھا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ventilator (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ventilator (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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