Check
Check verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).
Usage example: check your enthusiasm a bit, and think before you marry someone you just met
Vent
Vent verb - To find emotional release for.
Usage example: vented her anger and then quickly calmed down
How words are described
| full | full check | full vent |
| usual | usual check | usual vent |
| fake | fake check | fake vent |
| deep | deep check | deep vent |
| Other adjectives: simple, small, powerful, entire, massive, large, big, little. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Having witnessed the events of "Squeeze" and "Tooms", Mulder and Scully naturally check out the heating vent.
Source: Series / The X-Files - Case in point: Vent: Right...so, just why is it exactly you needed a reality check?
Source: Fanfic / The Omega Chronicles -
Air-Vent Passageway: Loads of them, to the point of Benevolent Architecture, and guards rarely ever check in them on their own; mostly if they detect a noise coming from the air vent or caught a glimpse of the Marked Ninja running into one.
Source: Video Game / Mark of the Ninja
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