Vent

Vent may refer to:

  • Air vents, ducts used to deliver and remove air
  • Deep sea vent, or "black smoker", a type of hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor
  • Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues.
  • Medical ventilator, mechanical breathing machine
  • Plumbing vent or plumbing drainage venting, pipes leading from fixtures to the outdoors, usually via the roof
  • "Vent" (song), a song by Collective Soul
  • Vent (album), a 2001 album by Caliban
  • Vent EP, 2008 release from the band Sounds of Swami
  • Vent (Mega Man), a character in Mega Man ZX
  • Vent or flue, a duct, pipe, or chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a furnace or water heater
  • Vent (imprint), an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
  • Vent (radio series), a dark comedy series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2006
  • Vent (tailoring), a slit up the back of a jacket or coat
  • Vent server or Ventrilo, an Internet VoIP chat system service
  • Vent (submarine), a valve fitted to the top of a submarine's ballast tanks
  • Vents (musician), an Australian hip hop MC.
  • Volcanic vent, a point where magma penetrates the Earth's surface and becomes lava

Famous quotes containing the word vent:

    “The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.
    Open your ears; for which of you will stop
    The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, & ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)