Vend
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vend¹
- /vɛnd/
Rhymes with -ɛnd
Where it comes from
17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).
verb vends · vending · vended
- Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine. As there was a small establishment that vended tea and toast just across the road, it was reasonable that Partridge should officiate therein as Limpet's host, and so easily adjusted to necessity are the economics of a simple life, that two pots of tea, two plates of toast, tobacco, and one subject o
- To provide or export functionality, especially from an API. As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
noun vends
- The act of vending or selling; a sale.
- The total sales of coal from a colliery.
vend²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.
noun 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. [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...
Vend³
noun Vends
- A member of a Balto-Finnic people who lived between the 12th to 16th centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia.
