What's the difference between opportunity and vent?

Opportunity


Definition:

  • (n.) Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
  • (n.) Convenience of situation; fitness.
  • (n.) Importunity; earnestness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) These results indicate that diaphragmed fenestrae are inducible structures, and provide an opportunity to study them in vitro.
  • (3) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (4) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (5) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (6) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
  • (7) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
  • (8) The opportunities for infection are often strong in areas of high population within a city – schools, for instance.
  • (9) This study suggests that laparoscopy has a role in adhesiolysis of mild and moderate adhesions and SLL provides further opportunity to relyse reformed adhesions in some cases.
  • (10) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (11) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (12) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
  • (13) Assessment opportunities can be identified or structured in any milieu.
  • (14) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (15) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (16) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.
  • (17) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
  • (18) We are looking at all opportunities and every opportunity."
  • (19) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
  • (20) Recent progress with familial adenomatous polyposis illustrates some of the opportunities for prevention of colorectal cancer which may arise with syndrome recognition in the future.

Vent


Definition:

  • (n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
  • (v. t.) To sell; to vend.
  • (n.) A baiting place; an inn.
  • (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  • (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
  • (n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
  • (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  • (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  • (n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  • (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
  • (v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
  • (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
  • (v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
  • (v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
  • (3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
  • (4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
  • (5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
  • (6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
  • (7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
  • (8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
  • (9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
  • (10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
  • (11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
  • (12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
  • (13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
  • (14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
  • (15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
  • (16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
  • (17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
  • (18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
  • (19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
  • (20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.

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