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Vocabulary

wind; flatulence; empty words, hot air; wind instrument

Noun

a chimney; a fireplace or hearth; a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery; a hole at the centre of some models of parachute; the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp; a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier; a type of welding fault; the exhaust of a volcano; a vertical mineral vein; large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops

Noun

fente

cleft, fissure, crack (in rock); split, crack (in wood); slit, slot; slit (in skirt), vent (in jacket etc.); fissure; lunge; crack, slit (vulva)

Noun

défouler

to vent; to be a release for; to let off steam; unwind

Verb

enchères

an auction (always plural - enchères - when used in this sense in French. shortened from vente aux enchères)

Noun

hotte

carrying basket, burden basket; chimney flue; hood (metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes); kitchen hood, extractor hood (electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking); fume hood (ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment)

Noun

neck

neck (solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano)

Noun

tuyère

an air vent in the masonry of a metallurgic oven; the back chamber of a combustion engine where the gas decompresses

Noun

TVQ

QST (“Quebec sales tax”) initialism of taxe de vente du Québec

Noun

VPC

initialism of vente par correspondance (mail order)

Noun

UVC

initialism of unité de vente consommateur

Noun

Moulin-à-Vent

Moulin-à-Vent (a district of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania)

Name

Molí de Vent

synonym of Moulin-à-Vent

Name

fumeur blanc

white smoker (kind of hydrothermal vent that emits lighter-hued minerals than those of a black smoker)

Noun

déverser sa bile

to vent one's spleen

Verb

passer ses nerfs

to take it out (on), to vent one's spleen, to vent one's gall

Verb

hotte aspirante

hood (metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes); kitchen hood, extractor hood (electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking); fume hood (ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment)

Noun

vol-au-vent

vol-au-vent (puff pastry with a hole)

Noun

abat-vent

chimney cowl; louver boarding (of window, opening), abat-vent; wind screen

Noun

bouchée à la reine

a kind of filled vol-au-vent, served hot

Noun

fumeur noir

black smoker (kind of hydrothermal vent found on the seabed, emitting clouds of black material)

Noun

prise d'air

air vent, air inlet; air intake; snorkel (hollow tube used for breathing underwater)

Noun

donner libre cours

to give free rein to; to give free expression to; to vent

Verb

vente

sale

Noun

ventre

belly; antinode

Noun

ventilation

ventilation: replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh; ventilation: mechanical system used to circulate and replace air; repartition

Noun

ventilateur

ventilator, fan; pedestal fan

Noun

ventiler

to ventilate; to discuss, debate; to evaluate, estimate; to break down (a total into parts)

Verb

venter

to be windy, to blow

Verb

ventral

ventral

Adjective

ventouse

plunger; suction cup; cupping glass; ventouse; sucker; sucker (a person who sucks; a general term of disparagement); an opening in a pipe, shaft, etc. to allow air flow

Noun

ventilo

fan (machine used for circulating air)

Noun

ventriculaire

ventricular

Adjective

ventricule

ventricle

Noun

venteux

windy (charactized by strong winds)