What's the difference between mend and vend?

Mend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
  • (v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  • (v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  • (v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
  • (2) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
  • (3) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (4) Chelsea have paid the buyout clause in Costa’s contract – he shares the same agent as Mourinho, Jorge Mendes – and the club are pushing ahead with the rest of their business.
  • (5) Kenyon then moved to Chelsea, where he and Mendes negotiated Mourinho’s hiring as the new manager, the signings of Carvalho and Ferreira to join him from Porto, and Tiago Mendes, from Benfica.
  • (6) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (7) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
  • (8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (9) That Chelsea should be in partnership with Mendes and CAA in the Burnaby venture, without openly discussing it, raises many questions.
  • (10) De Blasio and Bratton have promised to mend the frayed relations between police officers and the city's minority communities.
  • (11) DNA sequence analysis of menD shows an open reading frame encoding a 52-kilodalton protein.
  • (12) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Van der Bellen: Austria vote a signal of hope Overcoming these strong emotions and mending the deep divisions they have caused will be a tremendously difficult task.
  • (14) Now the only question is whether Mendes is going to make the sequel.
  • (15) Harris and Mendes grew up on the BBC Television Shakespeare – adaptations of every play, broadcast between 1978 and 1985.
  • (16) Paget's disease may in some cases require recourse to surgery: (1) Fractures of bones in patients with the disease mend normally but slowly.
  • (17) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
  • (18) In confluent group C cells, the mended sites were clustered in regions where dimer excision was as efficient as excision in the DNA of normal cells.
  • (19) However, in an interview with the Spanish radio station Cadena COPE on Wednesday evening, Mendes rejected those suggestions and was adamant Ronaldo intends to spend the rest of his career in the Spanish capital.
  • (20) Giovana Mendes was one of those who took part in protests against what she described as "the shameful political situation".

Vend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
  • (n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  • (n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
  • (3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
  • (5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
  • (6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
  • (7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
  • (8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
  • (9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
  • (10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
  • (12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
  • (13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
  • (14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
  • (16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
  • (17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
  • (18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
  • (19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
  • (20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)