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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



... works indirectly, she thinks he intends a tender look at another girl for a carom shot, and frequently a far-sighted maiden can see the evidences of a consuming passion for herself in a man's devotion to ...
— The Spinster Book • Myrtle Reed

... to have his name used as little as he can, and he was glad when I did deliver him up a letter of his to me, which did give countenance to the discharging of men by ticket at Chatham, which is now coming in question; and wherein, I confess, I am sorry to find him so tender of appearing, it being a thing not only good and fit, all that was done in it, but promoted and advised by him. But he thinks the House is set upon wresting anything to his prejudice that they can ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... not overabundant among us of Oriander's blood, as we both know. No, cousin, Fate and Time are merry jesters. See, now, their latest mockery! You the King of England ride to Sycharth to your death, and I the tender of sheep depart into London, without any hindrance, to reign henceforward over these islands. To-morrow you are worm's-meat, Cousin Henry: to-morrow, as yesterday, ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell

... herself. Men had ways of dealing with one another which women could not understand. Her ideas of justice were tempered with mercy and pity; she allowed her heart to map out her line of conduct toward her fellow men, and as a consequence her sympathies were broad and tender. In business, though, she supposed, it must be different. There mind must rule. It was a struggle in which the keenest wit and the sharpest instinct counted, and in which the emotion of mercy was subordinate to the love of gain. And so in time she erected her idol again and the ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer

... between the Kimmeridge clay and the Coral Rag, presently to be described. It affords a remarkable example of the variety of fossils which may be preserved under favourable circumstances, and what delicate impressions of the tender parts of certain animals and plants may be retained where the sediment is of extreme fineness. Although the number of testacea in this slate is small, and the plants few, and those all marine, count Munster had determined no less ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


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