The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.
To change or renew, as the air of a room.
--Harvey.To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
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.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of ventilate English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "ventilating".
This ventilating and illumining function of fearless and reverential critical thought will need to be fulfilled much longer in many quarters.
Goodman tried to record the events on the anesthesia record in between compressions of the ventilating bag.
The greatest concentration of the chemical bomb (hydrogen sulfide: ingeniously implanted in the building's basement ventilating system) was at the front of the auditorium where the eighty-nine graduating seniors, their teachers and school district administrators were seated By the time the Patriot-Ledger printed its front-page article on the mysterious event, two days later, declaring in broad headlines STINK BOMB DISRUPTS MT.
They could be converted from ventilating to waterproof to heat retaining after being interfaced with his body computer, and had a hood and rain shield attached.
In addition to the general noise of dinner, the music of a live pipe band was being transmitted through the ventilating ducts.
The blue tendrils of smoke from their pipes rose slowly, to be drawn away by the efficient ventilating system.
Any attempt to extinguish the conflagration in the vault itself was hopeless, however, and so the workers contented themselves with pouring water into the basement on either side, to keep the building and perhaps the other vaults cool, and with maintaining a constant stream of chemical mixture from a special apparatus down the ventilating system into and upon the smoldering film.
He knew the layout and he'd sabotage the ventilating system with gas, leaving them all unconscious, and the mines wide open for the rest of his psions to come in and take it over.
Weatherhill consulted the blueprint showing the ventilating system for the final time.
The ventilating system was so noiseless that he had to put his hand over the vents to make sure he felt air currents.
The air itself was full of alien, mechanical scents, little trace odors carried on the ventilating system of oil and room dust, plus all the human smells that result when our race is cooped up within a structure.
He made his way calmly to the grille that gave him entrance to the ventilating system, took out the grille, and entered the tube.
It was obvious that at least the ventilating system was still working.