different between quotation vs vendor

For Wiktionary's use of quotations, see Wiktionary:Quotations

English

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotatio, from Latin quot?re, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwo??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

quotation (countable and uncountable, plural quotations)

1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.

   Synonyms: quote, citation

2. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

3. The act of setting a price.
4. (obsolete) A quota, a share.

Synonyms

• (price): quote

Coordinate terms

• attestation

Hyponyms

• (price): bid, ask, offer

Derived terms

Translations

References

• quotation at OneLook Dictionary Search

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?