What's the difference between steam and vent?

Steam


Definition:

  • (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
  • (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
  • (n.) Any exhalation.
  • (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
  • (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
  • (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.
  • (v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
  • (v. t.) To exhale.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
  • (2) It could perhaps be used in natural gas stations, where a synthetic gas is first produced by reacting the methane with steam to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
  • (3) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
  • (4) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (5) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
  • (6) Yet they seem ignorant of what's steaming down the track towards them.
  • (7) But Soriot sounds like a boss who would prefer to succeed under his own steam.
  • (8) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
  • (9) Both those models are running out of steam," he said.
  • (10) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
  • (11) Do not write a steaming novella to the chair of governors complaining that your son’s civil rights have been denied.
  • (12) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
  • (13) Acid hydrolysis followed by steam distillation released more than 95% of the acetyl groups from the two major nucleoproteins.
  • (14) "For example, making use of more rigorous testing methodologies pre-launch to improve game quality and prevent SimCity-style launch debacles; engaging with, listening to and rewarding its games' communities more readily; learning from, rather than dismissing, the successful practices of competitors such as Steam, etc."
  • (15) The meat preserves had been prepared in a butcher's shop and heated in a "cooking pot", the steam holes of which had been stopped up and the lid of which had been made heavier in order to reach a temperature above 100 degrees C. Inadequate sterilization and errors in processing are suggested as possible causes.
  • (16) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
  • (17) Data are presented which show the potential for release of viable microorganisms into the atmosphere from high-vacuum steam sterilizers during the evacuation cycle preceding application of steam under pressure.
  • (18) 2 Drop in the camomile flowers (or a camomile teabag) and keep at a steeping temperature – no bubbles, just gentle steaming.
  • (19) He steamed with anger and, although it was encouraging to see him stand up to the rough stuff, there may yet be an anxious wait on scan results.
  • (20) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.

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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