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单词 ventage
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ventagen.1

Forms: In 1500s -adge.
Etymology: < vent v.3 + -age suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
The action of selling or vending; sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun]
salec1050
sellinga1325
merchandisinga1425
utterance1436
venting1532
vendition1542
vent1548
assale1566
ventage1577
vent1583
vending1666
distribution1793
flogging1919
turnaround1936
1577 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep., App. Pt. V in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. App. v. 426 The great losse they sustayned in this ventadge by meanes of those with whom they have sente..their goodes in to Spayne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

ventagen.2

Brit. /ˈvɛntɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈvɛn(t)ɪdʒ/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s ventige.
Etymology: < vent n.2 + -age suffix.
1. One of the series of apertures or holes in the length of a wind instrument for controlling the notes; a finger-hole.In modern use perhaps originally from Shakespeare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > finger-hole
stopc1500
ventage1604
finger hole1785
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 345 Gouerne these ventages [1623 Ventiges] with your fingers,..& it wil discourse most eloquent musique. View more context for this quotation
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 264 It was found practicable to produce the same variety of tones with a single pipe, by means of ventiges or holes.
1794 R. Burns Let. 19 Nov. (2003) II. 331 The ‘Stock’ has six, or seven, ventiges on the upper side, & one back-ventige, like the common flute.
1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge xxiii An instrument made of some bright yellow hard wood,..the ventiges [1842 ventages] inlaid with gold.
1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare v. 171 It is enough for him to finger the ventages of a recorder and invite Guildenstern to play upon it.
in extended use.1612 J. Webster White Divel ii. i. 299 He will shoot pils into a mans guts, shall make them have more ventages than a cornet or a lamprey.
2.
a. A comparatively small opening for the passage of air, etc.; an air-hole or vent-hole.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > ventilation opening or hole
breathinga1387
suspiralc1430
breathing hole?1440
wind-ventc1450
air hole1601
spiracle1620
ventage1623
spirament1654
wind-hole1683
spiraculuma1734
blowhole1858
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy ii. v. sig. F I would haue their bodies Burnt in a coale-pit, with the ventage stop'd.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 112/2 In subterraneous Conduits you shou'd open Ventiges like Wells... I have seen such Ventiges in the Country of the Marsi.
b. = vent n.2 11d.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > breech > vent
touch-hole1501
vent1667
bouche1862
ventage1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2703/1 The ventages of ordnance are bushed with copper.
3. Means for the escape of air.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > means for escape of air
ventage1615
1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. (1857) 226 She rises with a purpose to be extreamely sober: this begets silence, which gives her a repletion of aire without ventage; and that takes away her appetite.
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