ventilation shaft
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- noun
- /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən ʃæft/
- Specialized
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conducto de ventilación
- The engineers inspected the ventilation shaft to ensure proper airflow throughout the building.
- go through the ventilation shaft
And this, this sort of invisible shaft, the less complicated ventilation shaft that is, that's how they could have installed it.
- And this, this sort of invisible shaft, the less complicated ventilation shaft that is, that's how they could have installed it.
Examples
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- Get out through the ventilation shaft.
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But there's debris in the ventilation shaft.
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I think it came in the ventilation shaft.
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I see a ventilation shaft.
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Yeah, these stairs should take me up to the ventilation shaft.
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I'm stuck in the ventilation shaft.
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This ventilation shaft connects to the forward hold.
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They've gone up the ventilation shaft.
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He's coming out in a ventilation shaft in the northwest corner, ground floor.
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To increase survivability, such facilities normally have dozens of real and fake exits and ventilation shafts.
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Synonyms
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An opening in clothing like the back of a jacket that lets air in
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A vertical or sloping passage, for example for an elevator in a building
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A channel like a pipe that moves air to bring fresh air into buildings
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A vertical passage in a building or mine that lets air move through spaces
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A passage that brings fresh air into mines and tunnels
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A pipe or duct that moves air for heating and cooling in buildings and machines
A shaft in a mine that sends air out
A small hole that lets gas or air escape
A hole that lets air or gas escape from a closed space
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The compound's meaning is directly derivable from its parts: 'ventilation' (air movement/supply and removal) + 'shaft' (a passage), so a shaft used for ventilation is predictable. This is a straightforward compositional nominal phrase found across languages and follows common English noun-noun compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will almost certainly understand it.
Etymology
Ventilation shaft comes from a simple picture of a long passage that moves air: ventilation means moving 'air' and a shaft is a long, narrow opening. These shafts let fresh 'air' in and push stale 'air' out, so the term now means the passage built to 'move air' through a building.