different between vend vs tend

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English *tenden, from Old French tendre (“to stretch, stretch out, hold forth, offer, tender”), from Latin tendere (“to stretch, stretch out, extend, spread out”).

Verb

tend (third-person singular simple present tends, present participle tending, simple past and past participle tended)

1. (law, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
2. (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from the mid-14th c.]

3. (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.

Usage notes

• In sense 2, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• tendency

Related terms

• tense
• tension
• tent
• intend

Translations

See also

• be given to

Etymology 2

From Middle English tenden, by apheresis of attenden (“to attend”). More at attend.

Alternative forms

• 'tend (obsolete)

Verb

tend (third-person singular simple present tends, present participle tending, simple past and past participle tended)

1. (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.) [from the early 14th c.]

2. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
   • 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody

     There's not a sparrow or a wren, / There's not a blade of autumn grain, / Which the four seasons do not tend / And tides of life and increase lend.

3. To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
4. (obsolete) To await; to expect.
5. (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
6. (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.

Synonyms

• (to look after): care for, minister to, nurse, see to, take care of
• (to accompany as an assistant): guard, look after, watch
• (to wait upon): See also Thesaurus:serve
• (to await): See also Thesaurus:wait for
• (to be attentive to): attend to
• (to manage when the tide turns):

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle, set on fire”) (usually in compounds ?tendan, fortendan, ontendan), from Proto-Germanic *tandijan? (“to kindle”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Danish tænde (“to kindle”), Swedish tända (“to ignite”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (tandjan, “to kindle”), Icelandic tendra (“to ignite”), German zünden (“to light, ignite, fire”). Related to tinder.

Alternative forms

• teend, tende, tind, tinde, teen
• teind, tynd, tynde, tine (Scotland)

Verb

tend (third-person singular simple present tends, present participle tending, simple past and past participle tended)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.

Derived terms

• atend, attend

Translations

Further reading

• tend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tend at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dent, dent

Albanian

Alternative forms

• dend

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tend-, from Proto-Indo-European *ten-d- (“to distend; draw, stretch (out)”). Cognate to Latin tendo (“to stretch (out), strain”). Present dendë with assimilation of the anlaut.

Verb

tend (first-person singular past tense denda, participle dendë)

1. to stuff, cram, to compress

Related terms

• dynd
• trys

References

French

Verb

tend

1. third-person singular present indicative of tendre

Anagrams

• dent