What's the difference between release and vent?

Release


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • (n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.
  • (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.
  • (n.) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
  • (n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.
  • (n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
  • (n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden.
  • (n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.
  • (n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.
  • (n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
  • (2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
  • (3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (4) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (5) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (6) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
  • (7) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
  • (8) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (10) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
  • (11) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (12) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (13) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (14) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
  • (15) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
  • (16) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
  • (17) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
  • (18) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
  • (19) Furthermore, H-7 enhanced the effect of thrombin on AA release.
  • (20) Because it has been suggested that the lathyrogen, BAPN, may stimulate the release of proteases, the protease inhibitors Trasylol and epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) were given alone or in combination to BAPN-treated rats.

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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