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ventilator
CIDE DICTIONARY
ventilator, n. [Cf. F. ventilateur, L. ventilator a winnower.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ventilator, n.
1 an appliance or aperture for ventilating a room etc.
2 Med. = RESPIRATOR 2.
1 an appliance or aperture for ventilating a room etc.
2 Med. = RESPIRATOR 2.
THESAURUS
ventilator
aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air duct, air filter, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, blower, blowhole, breathing hole, chiller, cold pack, cooler, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, flabellum, ice bag, ice bucket, ice cube, ice pack, ice pail, louver, louverwork, naris, nostril, punkah, shaft, spilehole, spiracle, surface cooler, thermantidote, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, water cooler, wind tunnel, windcatcher, windsail, windscoop, wine coolerROGET THESAURUS
ventilator
Wind
N wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball, blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary, lull'd by soft zephyrs, the storm is up and all is on the hazard, the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, while mocking winds are piping loud, winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage.Airpipe
N airpipe, air pipe, air tube, airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole, shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea, bronchus, bronchia, larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle, ventiduct, ventilator, louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds, blowpipe, pipe, jhilmil, smokestack, screen, window screen, ' artificial lung, iron lung, heart and lung machine.For further exploring for "ventilator" in Webster Dictionary Online