What's the difference between vend and wend?

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.)

Wend


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Wene.
  • (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
  • (v. i.) To turn round.
  • (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
  • (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
  • (2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
  • (3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
  • (4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
  • (5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
  • (6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
  • (7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
  • (8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
  • (9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
  • (10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
  • (11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
  • (12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
  • (13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.