Ventilator
['ventɪleɪtə] or ['vɛntɪletɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air.
Typist: Molly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
Edited by Gillian
Examples
- Such being done, place your ventilator first, egg drawer next, and tank last. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the ventilator should be four or six tin tubes 1/2 inch in diameter and 6 inches long. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Having made your tank, have what is called the ventilator made, which is a box with a bottom but no top. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Stoke Moran. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He would see it through the ventilator. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The ventilator should be 8 inches deep, and 1 inch smaller all round than the tank, as the tank must rest on inch boards. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- My attention was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They are now specifically known by the name of the purpose to which they are applied, as air ship, ventilator, air brake, fan blower, air pistol, air spring, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With the result of driving it through the ventilator. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The egg drawer is therefore_ LONGER _than the tank and ventilator. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- You saw the ventilator, too? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I deduced a ventilator. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Everett