tender

Plural: tenders

Noun

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment
• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
• a boat for communication between ship and shore
• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
• Care, kind concern, regard.
• The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
• Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
• Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
• A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Verb

Verb Forms: tendered, tendering, tenders

• To offer or present something for acceptance.
• offer or present for acceptance
• propose a payment
• make a tender of; in legal settlements
• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
  • "tenderize meat"
• To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
• To work on a tender.
• To offer, to give.
• To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions; to bid.

Adjective

• Soft, delicate, or easily damaged; sensitive.
• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
  • "a tender heart"
  • "a tender smile"
  • "tender loving care"
  • "tender memories"
  • "a tender mother"
• easy to cut or chew
  • "tender beef"
• physically untoughened
  • "tender feet"

Adjective Satellite

• hurting
  • "the tender spot on his jaw"
• young and immature
  • "at a tender age"
• having or displaying warmth or affection
  • "a tender glance"
• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
  • "tender green shoots"

Adj

• Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• Soft and easily chewed.
• Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
• Young and inexperienced.
• Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

Adv

• tenderly

Examples

• a tender subject
• destroyer tender
• He chose to TENDER a challenge to his opponent’s dubious play.
• His TENDER ego couldn’t handle another loss in Words With Friends.
• I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven.
• legal tender
• submarine tender
• Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
• tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
• tender flesh
• tender fruit
• tender plants
• to tender one’s resignation
• We will submit our tender to you within the week.
• You offer me the sword of my father, the very man whose bones, because of your perfidy, lie under the sod of Crecy. Aye, I'll surely take it, and just as surely you shall die with your tender through your heart!
• Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.

Synonyms

affectionate, attendant, attender, bid, crank, cranky, cutter, fond, legal tender, lovesome, offer, pinnace, raw, sensitive, ship's boat, sore, stamp, supply ship, tenderise, tenderize, tippy, untoughened, warm, dinghy, nesh

Antonyms

tough

Related Words

legal tender, put out for tender, put out to tender

Anagrams of tender