What is the meaning of Tender?

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.

Care, kind concern, regard.

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

tenderly

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

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.

Short for water tender (firefighting apparatus).

To work on a tender.

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.

To offer, to give.

To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

(finance) tender

coal-car

tender, anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.

tender: a railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

Apocopic form of tendere

Alternative form of tinder

tender (railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel)

tender (ship functioning as mobile base for other ships)

to tend

to trend

Clipping of entender.

tender

to tend to, to have a tendency

to spread, to stretch out

to lay (cable)

to make (a bed)

to hang up (clothes)

to build (a bridge across an expanse)

to extend (the hand)

to floor (with a punch), to stretch out

to cast (a net)

to set (a trap)

to coat (with plaster)

to lay oneself down

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