A hole for the escape of gas or air

Usage examples of vent.

When Archer turned, Tucker was watching the vent port with an accusatory glower.

Atmosphere vented like rocket exhaust, sending the flagship ballista careening off course.

Vents on the upper surface of the ship were opening, releasing hot air from the ballonets that hung in the center of the hydrogen cells.

Booming and popping sounds came from above, as hot air from the engine exhausts was vented into the ballonets in the gasbags.

Sir Francis smiled down on them benignly for a while as he let them give vent to their joy.

Sir Blays, you must admit that the air vents do provide an excellent escape route for us, should the need arise.

Fighting and brawling had always been part of the culture of Fenris, and it seemed to be doing the lads good to be able to vent their frustrations in this way.

Her armor smoldered and hydrostatic gel boiled from the emergency release vent along her left side.

I told him then what I thought of him, giving vent to all the accumulated irritation of the past few days: he was, I said, a pitiful mediocrity, a mindless, unimaginative hanger-on, without the seed of an original idea.

Vents in the ceiling sucked air out of the room, blasted it with UV, forced it through microfilters, and jetted it back.

Cette baie ou le vent du nord entre avec les goelettes norvegiennes chargees de planches et de fers bruts, Saint-Valery, ne plait point aux etrangers.

Then he gave vent to the same peculiar whistle with which Plater had announced his own approach to the log-hut in the woods.

A semicircular protractor of metal for measuring the inclination of vents, or for ascertaining their deviation from the guide.

Then he moved over to a vent pipe and fastened one end of the reata snuggly to the rusty iron.

Steam carouseled ceilingward, sucked out through recycling vents to be recondensed and reused.