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Tender

Adjective

Définitions

1.AdjectiveSensitive or painful to the touch.
2.AdjectiveEasily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
"tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"
3.AdjectivePhysically weak; not able to endure hardship.
4.AdjectiveSoft and easily chewed.
5.AdjectiveSensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6.AdjectiveFond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
"Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."
7.AdjectiveYoung and inexperienced.
"I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven."
8.AdjectiveAdapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
"tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"
9.AdjectiveApt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
"a tender subject"
10.AdjectiveHeeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11.AdjectiveExciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12.AdjectiveCareful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
13.NounCare, kind concern, regard.
14.NounThe inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
15.Adverbtenderly
16.VerbTo make tender or delicate; to weaken.
17.VerbTo feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
18.NounSomeone who tends or waits on something or someone.
19.NounA railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
20.NounA naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
"submarine tender; destroyer tender"
21.NounA smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
22.NounA member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
23.NounEllipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
24.VerbTo work on a tender.
25.NounAnything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
"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!"
26.NounA means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
"Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.; legal tender"
27.NounA formal offer to buy or sell something.
"We will submit our tender to you within the week."
28.NounAny offer or proposal made for acceptance.
29.VerbTo offer, to give.
"to tender one’s resignation"
30.VerbTo offer a payment, as at sales or auctions; to bid.
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