noun
Meaning 1
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
vend
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/vɛnd/
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rhymes with -ɛnd
noun
Meaning 2
The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK, dated
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
Meaning 5
Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: sell
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verb
Meaning 6
To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive, uncommon
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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verb
Meaning 7
sell or offer for sale from place to place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, pitch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deal, sell, trade
History
Etymology
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”).
Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بيع (biɛ) — sale
- Bulgarian: продажба (prodažba) — sale
- Caló: binda — sale
- Caló: venta — sale
- Chinese Mandarin: 销售 (xiāoshòu) — sale
- Chinese Mandarin: 出售 (chūshòu) — sale
- Finnish: myynti — sale
- French: vente — sale
- Georgian: გაყიდვა (gaq̇idva) — sale
- German: Vertrieb — sale
- Hebrew: מכירה (mekhira) — sale
- Ladino: venta — sale
- Ladino: trato — sale
- Polish: sprzedaż — sale
- Sindhi: وڪرو (vikro) — sale
- Spanish: venta — sale
- Tarifit: azenzi — sale
- Turkish: satış — sale
- Arabic: باع (baɛ) — to sell
- Caló: binar — to sell
- Chinese Mandarin: 卖 (mài) — to sell
- French: vendre — to sell
- Hebrew: מכר (makhár) — to sell
- Ladino: vender — to sell
- Latin: vendere — to sell
- Polish: sprzedawać — to sell
- Polish: sprzedać — to sell
- Sindhi: وڪڻڻ (vikananu) — to sell
- Spanish: vender — to sell
- Tarifit: zzenz — to sell