different between trade vs vend

English

Etymology

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *trad? (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)

1. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

   Synonym: commerce

2. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

   Synonyms: deal, barter

3. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
4. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

   Synonym: business

5. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

6. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
   • 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:

     In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade

   Synonym: craft

7. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
8. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

   Synonym: patronage

9. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
10. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

11. (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

12. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
13. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
14. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
15. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:trade.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To engage in trade.

   Synonym: deal
2. (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

3. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.

   Synonyms: exchange, swap, switch, truck

4. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

   Synonym: do business

6. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

trade (not comparable)

1. Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

See also

• buy
• sell

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, rated, tared, tread

Dutch

Verb

trade

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of treden

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??d/

Verb

trade

1. first-person singular present indicative of trader
2. third-person singular present indicative of trader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trader
5. second-person singular imperative of trader

Anagrams

• dater, tarde, tardé

Galician

Alternative forms

• trado

Etymology

From the medieval (Old Galician / Old Portuguese) form traado (13th century), from Late Latin taratrum (“auger”), attested by Isidore of Seville. Either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia or from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh?-tro-. Cognate with Portuguese trado, Spanish taladro, Old Irish tarathar, Old Welsh tarater, Breton tarar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?aðe?/

Noun

trade m (plural trades)

1. auger
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca

     four augers and a hatchet and an adze

Derived terms

• tradar

Related terms

• tarabelo

References

• “traado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “traad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “trade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “trade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “trade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Verb

tr?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tr?d?

References

• trade in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology 1

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from v?num (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

1. To hawk or to peddle merchandise.
2. To sell wares, especially through a vending machine.
3. (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.

Related terms

• vending machine
• vendor
• vendue

Translations

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. (Britain, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare wynn.

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The letter ?/?, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (?, whence also Latin-script ?/?) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
   • 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:

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

   • 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:

     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.

Further reading

• vend (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D. Nev.

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) ven [v?n]
• (Gheg) venn [v?nd]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, from earlier *wena. A gerund formation from vë. Has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare ??????? (Ouénd?n)).

Noun

vend m (indefinite plural vende, definite singular vendi, definite plural vendet)

1. place
2. location
3. (plot of) land

Declension

Derived terms

• vendos
• vendor
• vendim

Related terms

• vë

See also

• vis
• visele

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/, [v?n?]

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly an irregular variant of veli (“brother”), influenced by Swedish vän (“friend”).

Noun

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

1. brother
2. (colloquial) guy, dude, fellow, chap

Declension

Related terms

• õde
• vennas
• veli

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Verb

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?nd]
• Hyphenation: vend
• Rhymes: -?nd

Adjective

vend (not comparable)

1. Wendish, Sorbian

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

vend (plural vendek)

1. (dated) Slovene, Slovenian (person)
2. Wend, Sorb (person)
3. (singular only) Wendish, Sorbian (language)

Declension

See also

• szlovén

Further reading

• vend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

vend (plural vendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Norman

Verb

vend

1. inflection of vendre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Of the verb venda (“to turn”).

Noun

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

1. a turnaround, switch
2. (poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one
3. (weaving) outside of a woven fabric
4. (weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric

Participle

vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venda

Verb

vend

1. imperative of venda
2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venda

Etymology 2

Participle

vend (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venna

Verb

vend

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venna

References

• “vend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.