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cleft
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
From Middle English clift, from Old English ?eclyft, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)kluftiz. Compare Dutch klucht (“chaotic”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”) cave, den, German Kluft. See cleave.
Noun
cleft (plural clefts)
- An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:
- Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:
- A piece made by splitting.
- a cleft of wood
- A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- dimple
Verb
cleft (third-person singular simple present clefts, present participle clefting, simple past and past participle clefted)
- (linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
Related terms
- clefting
- cleft sentence
Etymology 2
Verb
cleft
- simple past tense and past participle of cleave
Adjective
cleft (not comparable)
- split, divided, or partially divided into two.
- Synonym: cloven
Translations
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vent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- A small aperture.
- The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
- A verbalized frustration.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Derived terms
- give vent to
- ridge vent
See also
- cloaca
- seal
Translations
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of ventriloquism
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- Ventriloquism.
Derived terms
- vent puppet
Etymology 3
From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
Noun
vent
- sale; opportunity to sell; market
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shelton to this entry?)
- July 22, 1673, William Temple, Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland
- there is in a manner no vent for any Commodity but of Wool
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- To sell; to vend.
- Therefore did those nations […] vent such spice.
Etymology 4
From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”). See vent (“sale”).
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
Etymology 5
Clipping.
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (medicine, colloquial) ventilation or ventilator.
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
Derived terms
- venting (n.)
- vented (adj.)
Anagrams
- Env't
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts < *h?weh?- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?vent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ben/
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- wind (movement of air).
- (castells) A casteller in the pinya standing between the laterals, and holding the right leg of one segon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents.
Related terms
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?n?d?]
Verb
vent
- imperative of vente
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”) and Low German Fent (“young fellow”).
- Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþij? (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English f?þa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible.
- Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) +? genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.
Noun
vent m (plural venten, diminutive ventje n)
- chap, fellow
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
vent
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of venten
- imperative of venten
French
Etymology
From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts < *h?weh?- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- Atmospheric wind.
- (euphemistic) A flatulence.
- Synonym: (neutral) pet
- (uncountable) Empty words, hot air.
- Synonym: paroles en l'air
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- air
- courant
Further reading
- “vent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) wind
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
vent
- neuter singular of ven
Verb
vent
- imperative of vente
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt/ (example of pronunciation)
Verb
vent
- imperative of venta
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt/ (example of pronunciation)
Participle
vent (definite singular and plural vente)
- past participle of venna
Participle
vent
- neuter singular of vend
Verb
vent
- supine of venna
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?nt/ (example of pronunciation)
Adjective
vent
- neuter singular of ven
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- wind (movement of air)
Related terms
Old French
Etymology
From Latin ventus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?nt]
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
vent m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)
- wind (movement of air)
Descendants
- From vent d'aval
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