different between bidder vs vendor

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?d?/
  • Homophone: bitter (in some accents)

Etymology

bid +? -er

Noun

bidder (plural bidders)

1. Someone who bids, e.g. at an auction

   The highest bidder shall get the house.

Translations

Anagrams

• bedrid, birded, brided, derbid

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?ið?]

Noun

bidder c

1. indefinite plural of bid

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch biddere. Equivalent to bidden +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.d?r/
• Hyphenation: bid?der
• Rhymes: -?d?r

Noun

bidder m (plural bidders, diminutive biddertje n)

1. someone who prays

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?