venting

Verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

1. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
   • The stove vents to the outside.
2. (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
   • In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water....1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195
3. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
   • Exhaust is vented to the outside.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To express a strong emotion.
   • He vents his anger violently.

   Synonyms:

   let off steam

5. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
   • Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
6. (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.

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