different between contact vs vendor

English

Etymology

From Latin contactus, from conting? (“I touch on all sides”), from tang? (“I touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (noun):

  (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt/

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt/

• (verb):

  (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt/, /k?n?tækt/

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt/, /k?n?tækt/

• Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

contact (countable and uncountable, plural contacts)

1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
2. The establishment of communication (with).
3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

4. Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.

5. (informal) A contact lens.
6. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
7. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.

8. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

contact (third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple past and past participle contacted)

1. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.

   The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.

2. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone

   I am trying to contact my sister.

Usage notes

• The use of contact as a verb is occasionally discountenanced. Nonetheless, its usefulness and popularity have - at least to some extent - worn down resistance.

Translations

References

Dutch

Alternative forms

• kontakt (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from French contact, from Latin contactus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?kt/
• Hyphenation: con?tact
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

contact n (plural contacten, diminutive contactje n)

1. physical contact
2. contact (close association)
3. contact (communication, exchange)
4. contact (someone with whom communication has been established)

Derived terms

Related terms

• contacteren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kontak
• ? Indonesian: kontak
• ? West Frisian: kontakt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contactus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.takt/

Noun

contact m (plural contacts)

1. (physical) contact; contact (with another person)
2. contact (person that one knows)
3. rapport

Further reading

• “contact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French contact

Noun

contact n (plural contacte)

1. contact

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. A vending machine.
   • 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)

     She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendor bid
• vendue

Translations

Verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

1. (transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

   I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.

2. (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

   Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

Anagrams

• Verdon, droven

Latin

Verb

v?ndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?nd?