vend
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See also: Vend
Etymology 1
From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛnd/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd
Verb
vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)
- Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
- 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.
- (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
vend (plural vends)
- The act of vending or selling; a sale.
- (UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.
Noun
vend (plural vends)
- The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
- 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:
- [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...
- 2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 88:
- In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.
Further reading
vend (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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