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Tender   /tˈɛndər/   Listen
Tender

adjective
(compar. tenderer; superl. tenderest)
1.
Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality.  "A tender smile" , "Tender loving care" , "Tender memories" , "A tender mother"
2.
Hurting.  Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore.
3.
Young and immature.
4.
Having or displaying warmth or affection.  Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome, warm.  "A fond embrace" , "Fond of his nephew" , "A tender glance" , "A warm embrace"
5.
Easy to cut or chew.
6.
Physically untoughened.  Synonym: untoughened.
7.
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.  Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy.
8.
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition.
noun
1.
Something that can be used as an official medium of payment.  Synonyms: legal tender, stamp.
2.
Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another.  Synonyms: attendant, attender.
3.
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price.  Synonym: bid.
4.
Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water.
5.
A boat for communication between ship and shore.  Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat.
6.
Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships.  Synonym: supply ship.
verb
(past & past part. tendered; pres. part. tendering)
1.
Offer or present for acceptance.
2.
Propose a payment.  Synonyms: bid, offer.
3.
Make a tender of; in legal settlements.
4.
Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer.  Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize.



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"Tender" Quotes from Famous Books



... their judgment, they thought it probable, that, on being acquainted with their peremptory orders for commencing a prosecution, he might be desirous of paying his share of profits into the Company's treasury; and they pointed out a precaution to be used in accepting such a tender on his part. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... away the perspiration which rose to his brow even as he was standing. And all the while he was thinking what he would do next, or what say next, with the view of getting Trevelyan away from the place. Hitherto he had been very tender with him, contradicting him in nothing, taking from him good humouredly any absurd insult which he chose to offer, pressing upon him none of the evil which he had himself occasioned, saying to him no word that could hurt either his pride or his comfort. But he could not see that this ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... importance in the dispatch he carried, Bruce had been sent now to the trenches of the Here-We-Comes. It was his first visit to the regiment he had saved, since the days of the Rache assault two months earlier. Thanks to supremely clever surgery and to tender care, the dog was little the worse for his wounds. His hearing gradually had come back. In one shoulder he had a very slight stiffness which was not a limp, and a new-healed furrow scarred the left side of his tawny coat. Otherwise he was as good ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... on the mimosas in South Africa, and fabricates for itself a case quite indistinguishable from the surrounding thorns. From such considerations Mr. Wallace thought it probable that conspicuously coloured caterpillars were protected by having a nauseous taste; but as their skin is extremely tender, and as their intestines readily protrude from a wound, a slight peck from the beak of a bird would be as fatal to them as if they had been devoured. Hence, as Mr. Wallace remarks, "distastefulness ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... of the woods. The lines were soft about her lips and eyes, indicating a marked sweetness and tenderness of nature; but these traits did not in the least deny her parentage. No one but the woodsman knows how gentle, how hospitably tender, the ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall


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