vendor
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
A person or a company that vends or sells.
A vending machine.
- She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
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.
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As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies…
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymmerchant
- synonymseller
- neighborvend
- neighborvending machine
- neighborvendue
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vendor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at vendor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at vendor
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA