noun

1. A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material.
2. An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.

noun

1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
2. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
3. A verbalized frustration.
4. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
5. A slit in the seam of a garment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.

The stove vents to the outside.

1. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.

Exhaust is vented to the outside.

1. (context, transitive, intransitive) To express.

He vents his anger violently.

verb (ventilat, ing)

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. (medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.

noun

1. The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh
   
2. The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air
   
3. An exchange of views during a discussion
   
4. The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide

noun (plural vises)

1. An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

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noun

1. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
2. (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the (super)family Volutidae.