What's the difference between mender and vender?

Mender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who mends or repairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also wants to expand services available at its stores by bringing in shoe menders Timpsons and exploring putting coffee shops or car mechanics into units within Morrisons’ car parks.
  • (2) The military staged a coup in 1960, which saw the hanging of the then-prime minister, Adnan Menderes, and two other ministers, and another in 1971.
  • (3) Adnan Menderes , Turkey’s popular political figure of 1950s was hanged in 1961, following the first military takeover.
  • (4) While infected animals could have brought the virus into the area, analysis based on the probable time of infection of pregnant dams showed that easterly winds at the end of September or beginning of October 1979 could have brought insects infected with Akabane virus into the Menderes valley from eastern Turkey or northern Syria.
  • (5) It is critical that we make more visible the expectations and indictments of women in their socially constructed roles of menders and tenders.
  • (6) "Boulatruelle, the road-mender we have already met.
  • (7) Their appearances in print were usually restricted to cartoons in Punch, which whittled away their lives to a set of comic catchphrases, or novels in which they provided little more than splashes of local colour, such as Dombey and Son 's description of "the water-carts and the old-clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went along".
  • (8) An outbreak of bluetongue in sheep started in the Menderes valley, Aydin Province, Western Turkey, in October 1977.
  • (9) During the night of 14-15 October 1977, south-easterly winds could have brought midges infected with bluetongue virus for the 15 h flight at a height possibly of 500 m and at temperatures of about 20 degrees C. A depression moving north-eastwards accompanied by rain may have affected the landing of midges in the Menderes valley on the morning of 15 October.
  • (10) An outbreak of arthrogryposis-hydranencephaly in newly born calves occurred in March-May 1980, also in the Menderes valley, Aydin Province.

Vender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's a ridiculous, stupid law," says David Parry, vender of all kinds of household goods – pots of paint, rope, cigarette lighters.
  • (2) Patient services issues in HHC involve the ethics of providing high-technology feeding therapies to terminally ill patients and the controversies surrounding drug products, such as the appropriate amount of drug to be dispensed, the appropriate individual to compound home-care drug products, acceptable types of product packaging, and the impact of a switch in venders on the drug products supplied to patients.
  • (3) Because of careful planning, the cooperation of all pharmacy staff members, and frequent assistance from the computer vender, the nine-month conversion to a computerized system proceeded smoothly.
  • (4) The department developed a request for proposal and contracted with a vender for a system that would support unit dose drug distribution and i.v.
  • (5) Vender, Joyce (Indiana University, Bloomington), Kunthala Jayaraman, and H. V. Rickenberg.