Difference between Vent and Volcano

What is the difference between Vent and Volcano?

Vent as a noun is an opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. while Volcano as a noun is a vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

Vent

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To allow gases to escape. To allow to escape through a vent. To express.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. A verbalized frustration. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates. A slit in the seam of a garment. Ventriloquism.

Example sentence: I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Volcano

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

Example sentence: I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

We hope you now know whether to use Vent or Volcano in your sentence.

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