vend

present singular third person vends · participle present vending · participle past vended · past vended

1. Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.

   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.

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

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   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 of conversation, kept them occupied contentedly till ten o'clock.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 151

   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.

   1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: sell

2. transitiveuncommoncomputingTo 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.

   2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289

plural vends

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. AustraliaUKdatedThe total sales of coal from a colliery.

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.

   [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...

   1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707

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   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.

   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

plural Vends

1. historicalA 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.