different between vendor vs tilly

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?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
   • 1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney:

     Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.

Synonyms

• lagniappe (America), pasella (South Africa)

Etymology 2

From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.

Alternative forms

• Tilly

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Britain) A small open-backed truck.
   • 1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83:

     After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.

   • 1980, Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures, page 119:

     One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".

Synonyms

• (small truck): ute (Australia)

Etymology 3

From till +? -y.

Adjective

tilly (comparative more tilly, superlative most tilly)

1. Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).