vend

See also: Vend

English

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)

1. 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.

   • 2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com‎:

     Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.

2. (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
   • 2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:

     As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.

Derived terms

• vending machine

Related terms

• revend
• venal
• venality
• vendor
• vendue

Translations

to sell

Polish: sprzedawać (pl) impf, sprzedać (pl) pf

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. (UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Translations

sale

Bulgarian: продажба (bg) f (prodažba) Finnish: myynti (fi) French: vente (fr) f Georgian: გაყიდვა (gaq̇idva) German: Vertrieb (de) m Polish: sprzedaż (pl) f Spanish: venta (es) f Turkish: satış (tr)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. 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

Anagrams

• D. Nev.