Rant vs. Vent — What's the Difference?

To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.

Forceful expression or release of pent-up thoughts or feelings

To express at length a complaint or negative opinion

An opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam.

To utter or express by ranting

The small hole at the breech of a gun through which the charge is ignited.

Angry, emotionally charged, or tediously negative speech or writing

(Zoology) The excretory opening of the digestive tract in animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

An example of such speech or writing

The opening of a volcano in the earth's crust.

Chiefly British Wild or uproarious merriment.

An opening on the ocean floor that emits hot water and dissolved minerals.

To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.

A slit in a garment, as in the back seam of a jacket.

To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.

To express (one's thoughts or feelings, for example), especially forcefully.

To criticize by ranting.

To release or discharge (steam, for example) through an opening.

(dated) To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.

To provide with a vent.

To dance rant steps.

To vent one's feelings or opinions

A criticism done by ranting.

To be released or discharged through an opening.

A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.

To rise to the surface of water to breathe. Used of a marine mammal.

A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.

An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

A small aperture.

High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.

A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.

Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

A slit in the seam of a garment.

The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.

In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

Ventriloquism.

(obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

Clipping of ventilationor ventilator.

(intransitive) To allow gases to escape.

(transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.

To express a strong emotion.

To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

(transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.

To sell; to vend.

To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

A baiting place; an inn.

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.

The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.

The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

To sell; to vend.

To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

To utter; to report; to publish.

To scent, as a hound.

To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

A hole for the escape of gas or air

External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate

A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)

Activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion;

Give expression or utterance to;

Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen;