Meaning of 'tender' (Webster Dictionary)
- One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a
nurse.
- A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them
with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
- A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of
fuel and water.
- An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to
be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be
incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due,
or of the amount of a note, with interest.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of
a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
- The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of
an obligation.
- Regard; care; kind concern.
- Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not
firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure
hardship; immature; effeminate.
- Susceptible of the softer passions, as love,
compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's
good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
- Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with
of.
- Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of
the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
expostulations; a tender strain.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as,
a tender subject.
- Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a
vessel.
- To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in
order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent
or debt.
- To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
- To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to
regard; to esteem; to value.
Meaning of 'tender' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
Meaning (2):
- propose a payment
Example in sentence:- The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting
Meaning (3):
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Example in sentence:- a tender heart;
- a tender mother;
- a tender smile;
- tender loving care;
- tender memories
Meaning (4):
- easy to cut or chew
Meaning (5):
- physically untoughened
Meaning (6):
- having or displaying warmth or affection
Example in sentence:- a fond embrace;
- a tender glance;
- affectionate children;
- fond of his nephew
Meaning (7):
- young and immature
Meaning (8):
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
Meaning (9):
- hurting
Example in sentence:- the tender spot on his jaw
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