different between vendor vs twig

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English twig, twyg, from Old English twi?, from Proto-Germanic *tw?g? (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweyg?om (compare Old Church Slavonic ????? (dvig?, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh?. More at two.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tw??/, [t?w???]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

twig (plural twigs)

1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

   They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.

Synonyms

• tillow

Derived terms

• off one's twig
• twig and berries

Translations

Verb

twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)

1. (transitive) To beat with twigs.

Etymology 2

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand”).

Verb

twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)

1. (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
2. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

3. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

Synonyms

• (to realise something): clock, get it, notice; see also Thesaurus:identify
• (to understand the meaning): fathom, figure out, grasp, ken, work out
• (to observe slyly): check out, peep, spy on, surveil

Translations

Etymology 3

Compare tweak.

Verb

twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) twi, twi?
• twigge, twyg, twygge, tuyg

Etymology

From Old English tw?g, from Proto-Germanic *tw?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twi?/, /twi?/

Noun

twig (plural twigges)

1. Any part of a tree, especially a branch or cutting:
   1. A twig or tillow; a shoot branching off a tree.
   2. A easily bending branch used in crafts.
2. (figuratively, rare) A subtype or part of something; the result or descendant of something.

Descendants

• English: twig
• Scots: twigg, tuigg

References

• “twig, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twij/

Noun

twi? n

1. twig
2. branch

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: twig
  • English: twig