different between theme vs vendor

English

Etymology

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek ???? (théma), from ?????? (títh?mi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?m/
• Hyphenation: theme
• Rhymes: -i?m (for all senses)
• Rhymes: -i?mi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. A recurring idea; a motif.
3. (dated) An essay written for school.
4. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
5. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
6. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
7. (grammar) The stem of a word.
8. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
9. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
10. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
11. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

1. (transitive) To give a theme to.

   We themed the birthday party around superheroes.

2. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

References

• Theme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hemet

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

theme

1. Alternative spelling of þeme (“them”)

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?