What's the difference between sent and vent?

Sent


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Send
  • (v. & n.) See Scent, v. & n.
  • () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Send.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (2) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (3) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
  • (4) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
  • (5) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
  • (6) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (7) He was first allowed to leave Atatürk airport for a Turkish detention camp, before finally being sent to Australia in early June.
  • (8) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (9) A survey sent randomly to 30 retail pharmacies got 24 replies.
  • (10) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
  • (11) By means of a two-vial transport media system the samples were sent to a university laboratory and examined for viral, bacterial, and parasitic organisms.
  • (12) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
  • (13) Questionnaires were sent to 305 patients who during a three and a half year period had been invited to participate.
  • (14) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (15) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
  • (16) Almost four of five recommendations sent to patients were about compliance (45.1 percent) or were suggestions for improving the therapeutic effect of a medication or replacing a drug with nondrug treatment (33.4 percent).
  • (17) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
  • (18) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (19) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (20) It sent shockwaves through the entire armed policing community.” Chesterman added: “Morale among firearms officers is poor.

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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