1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. ventilate

Find the word definition

What is "ventilate"

Crossword clues for ventilate

ventilate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ventilate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ventilate your house when painting.
▪ Doctrinal issues were never ventilated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After treatment the store should be ventilated until the chlorine smell has dispersed.
▪ All these hazards, winter and summer, are the reasons an attic should be well ventilated.
▪ Doctrinal issues were never ventilated, and the dispute was confined to questions of legal rights and political jurisdiction.
▪ Ensure that your place of work is properly ventilated, lit and when necessary, heated.
▪ It is not a good design, even if the furnaces and ducts are heavily insulated and the attic well ventilated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ventilate

Ventilate \Ven"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ventilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ventilating.] [L. ventilatus, p. p. of ventilare to toss, brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. wind. See Wind rushing air.]

  1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.

  2. To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.

  3. To change or renew, as the air of a room.
    --Harvey.

  4. To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

  5. To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.
    --Ayliffe.

  6. To give vent; to utter; to make public.

    Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those starling, but not very profound, paradoxes.
    --J. C. Shairp.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ventilate

early 15c., "to scatter, disperse (as the wind does)," from Latin ventilatus, past participle of ventilare "to brandish, toss in the air, winnow, fan, agitate, set in motion," from ventulus "a breeze," diminutive of ventus "wind" (see wind (n.1)). Original notion is of cleaning grain by tossing it in the air and letting the wind blow away the chaff. Meaning "supply a room with fresh air" first recorded 1743 (see ventilation). Formerly with diverse slang senses, including "shoot" (someone), recorded from 1875. Related: Ventilated; ventilating.

Wiktionary
ventilate

vb. 1 To replace stale or noxious air with fresh. 2 To circulate air through a building, etc. 3 To provide with a vent. 4 To expose something to the circulation of fresh air. 5 To expose something to public examination or discussion. 6 (context medicine English) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.

WordNet
ventilate

  1. v. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn: vent, air out, air]

  2. expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage; "Wheat should be well ventilated"

  3. circulate through and freshen; "The gust of air ventilated the room"

  4. give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers" [syn: vent, give vent]

  5. furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape; "The architect did not thnk about ventilating the storage space"

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "ventilate".

I ventilated about this at night to Reamy as we cleaned up after dinner.

This ventilating and illumining function of fearless and reverential critical thought will need to be fulfilled much longer in many quarters.

Others again, where the kitchen is not properly ventilated, get the smoke of frying and the smell of cooking all through them.

No room can be, or ought to be, ventilated so that its occupants can stay in it all day long without discomfort.

With this equipment and a good supply of heat, any room can be properly ventilated and kept so.

For when it comes to a choice between being warm or well ventilated, we are sadly prone to choose the former every time.

So keen is this draft, so high this pressure, that some loosely-built houses and rooms, with only a few people in them, will in very cold weather be almost sufficiently ventilated through the natural cracks and leaks without opening a window or a door at all.

Persons of fair health and reasonably vigorous outdoor habits, whose skins are well bathed and ventilated, can wear properly woven cotton or linen undergarments the whole year round with perfect safety.

It is even claimed that tuberculous children in an outdoor school may make more rapid progress in their studies than the more normal children in a badly ventilated school.

The depression and faintness from which many students suffer, after being confined in a poorly ventilated school room, is clearly traceable to vitiated air, while the evil is often ascribed to excessive mental exertion.

The sleeping room should be large and well ventilated, and the air kept moderately cool.

When an apartment is not in use, it should be thoroughly ventilated by opening the windows.

The sleeping-room should be large and well ventilated, and the patient should lie with the head elevated.

Many women are sickly and feeble because they live in badly ventilated rooms.

All are well lighted, have high ceilings, and are cheerful and well ventilated apartments.