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)
“There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)