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noun
- A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material.
- An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.
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noun
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- The stove vents to the outside.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- Exhaust is vented to the outside.
- (context, transitive, intransitive) To express.
- He vents his anger violently.
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verb (ventilat, ing)
- To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
- To circulate air through a building, etc.
- To provide with a vent.
- To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
- To expose something to public examination or discussion.
- (medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.
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noun - The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh
- The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air
- An exchange of views during a discussion
- The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide
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noun (plural vises)
- 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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Vise (Page: 1613) Vise (?), n. F. vis a screw, winding stairs, OF. vis, viz, fr. L. vitis a vine; probably akin to E. withy. An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. Written also vice.
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noun
- (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
- (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
- (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the (super)family Volutidae.
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