verb

• (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
  "The stove vents to the outside."
• (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
  "In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive."
• (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
  "Exhaust is vented to the outside."
• (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
  "He vents his anger violently."

noun

• (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

noun

• (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
  "I have adjusted the vent settings."

verb

• (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.