Dictionary Definition
tender adj
1 given to sympathy or gentleness or
sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving
care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" [ant: tough]
3 susceptible to physical or emotional injury;
"at a tender age" [syn: vulnerable]
4 having or displaying warmth or affection;
"affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond
of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: affectionate, caring, fond, lovesome, warm]
5 easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" [ant:
tough]
6 physically untoughened; "tender feet" [syn:
untoughened] [ant:
tough]
8 (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse
growing condition; "tender green shoots"
Noun
1 something used as an official medium of payment
[syn: legal
tender]
3 a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
[syn: bid]
4 car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and
water
6 ship that usually provides supplies to other
ships [syn: supply
ship]
Verb
1 offer or present for acceptance
3 make a tender of; in legal settlements
4 make tender or more tender as by marinating,
pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: tenderize, tenderise]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
/ten-der/- Rhymes: -ɛndə(r)
Etymology 1
From tendre, from tener.Adjective
Derived terms
Translations
sensitive or painful
- Finnish: arka, aristava
- Japanese: 過敏
- Latin: tener
- Russian: нежный, чувствительный, уязвимый
- Spanish: estierno
soft and easily chewed
- Finnish: murea
- Japanese: 柔らかい
- Russian: нежный
- Spanish: estierno
fond, loving, gentle, sweet
- Czech: něžný
- Finnish: hellä
- Japanese: 優しい
- Latin: tener
- Russian: нежный, ласковый
- Spanish: estierno
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 嫩的 (nènde)
- ttbc Danish: øm (1); mør (2)
- ttbc Dutch: mals (2)
- ttbc French: tendre
- ttbc German: empfindlich (1), weich (2) , zart (2)
- ttbc Italian: tenero , tenera
- ttbc Korean: 연한 (yeonhan)
- ttbc Portuguese: tenro
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: bog, caomh, maoth, sèamh, tlàth
- ttbc Swedish: öm (1); mör (2)
- ttbc Telugu: లేత (laeta)(2)
See also
Etymology 2
tenden.Noun
- A means of payment
such as a check or
cheque, cash or credit card.
- Your credit card has been declined. You need to provide some other tender such as cash.
- A formal offer to buy
or sell something.
- We will submit our tender to you within the week.
- A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel.
- A naval ship that
functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- submarine tender
- destroyer tender
- submarine tender
- A boat used for transportation between a ship and shore.
Translations
means of payment
- Danish: betalingsmiddel
- Finnish: maksuväline
- Italian: valuta, moneta
law: an offer to buy or sell something
fuel-carrying railroad car
- Finnish: tenderi
- Italian: tender
- Japanese: 炭水車
- Polish: tender
nautical: ship functioning as mobile base for
other ships
- Danish: forsyningsskib
- Finnish: emälaiva
nautical: a boat used for transportation btw a
ship and the shore
- Finnish: yhteysvene
- Italian: scialuppa
See also
Etymology 3
From tendre.Verb
- To offer, to give.
-
- tender one's resignation
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter
to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
-
- To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions
Synonyms
Translations
formal: to offer, to give
- Finnish: esittää
to offer a payment
- Finnish: tarjota
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
- tender (a railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel)
Declension
Spanish
Verb
tenderExtensive Definition
Tender may mean:
Finance
A process by which one can seek prices and terms for a particular project (such as a construction job) to be carried out under a contract. The sealed offers themselves, including company information, a project outline, and a price quote, are known as tenders or bids. See also: reverse auction, contract A and Request for Quotation (RFQ).- legal tender, a term for currency
- tender offer, used to propose a buyout of a public company
- tendering, or call for bids, can also be referred to as Public Procurement, a way in which Bodies governed by Public Law (such as Local Authorities, schools, hospitals, utilities...) buy what they need for their activities. Tenders are governed by EU as well as the various countries legislation.
Transportation
- Tender locomotive, a steam locomotive with a tender which is a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive and used to carry fuel and water
- Brake tender, a heavy railroad car placed next to a locomotive to provide additional brake power when working an unbraked freight train
- The Israeli name for a pickup truck (טנדר)
- A water tender or similar utility vehicle carrying firefighting or emergency response apparatus
- One of several types of boat or ship, all sharing the general
function of servicing another type of air or sea vessel:
- buoy tender, used to maintain Aids to Navigation (Aton) including buoys.
- lighthouse tender, used to tend lighthouses and, later, buoys
- destroyer tender
- luxury yacht tender
- seaplane tender
- submarine tender
- motor torpedo boat tender, used to service motor torpedo boats
- ship's tender, used to transport people and supplies to and from a large ship
- dive tender, another name for a diving support vessel
Logistics
- The offer of goods for loading or transport
Health
- The consumption of toxic substances to the point of becoming raw
Sports
- The 2007 World Beach Bocce champions - Beyond Tender (T. Hadley , B. Hirst)
- The 2007 Manhattan Beach Bocce Champions - Beyond Tender (T. Hadley, B. Hirst)
Songs
- "Tender (song)" by Blur
- "Shatter / Tender (abcprocure)]" by Feeder
tender in Czech: Tendr
tender in German: Tender
tender in French: Tender
tender in Dutch: Tender
tender in Russian: Тендер
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christian, Christlike, Christly, Ganymede, Hebe, Pullman, Pullman car, accepting, accord, aching, administer, adoring, advance, affectionate, afford, agonizing, ailing, airline hostess, airline
stewardess, algetic,
allergic, allot, allow, amatory, amorous, anaphylactic, angry, attendant, attentive, award, baggage car, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, benevolent, benign, benignant, bestow, bestow on, bid, bills, bleeding, boat, bold, bootblack, boots, boxcar, brotherly, budding, burning, cabin boy, caboose, caddie, callow, car, careful, caring, carriage, cash, cautious, chafed, chair car, charitable, chewable, chore boy, circumspect, clement, coach, coal car, commiserative, communicate, compassionate, compensate, compensation, complaisant, condolent, confer, conjugal, considerate, copyboy, covered waggon,
creamy, cupbearer, curious, currency, dainty, dangerous, day coach, deal, deal out, decent, delicate, demonstrative, devoted, dewy, difficult, diner, dinghy, dining car, dish out,
dispense, dole, dole out, donate, drawing room, easy, easygoing, eatable, edible, eggshell, emotionable, emotional, empathetic, empathic, errand boy, errand
girl, extend, faithful, fee, feeble, feeling, festering, fiery, filial, fit for sea, flat, flatcar, fond, footboy, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, fork out, fragile, frail, fraternal, galled, gentle, gift, gift with, gig, give, give freely, give out,
gloss, gofer, gondola, good, good-natured, goosy, gracious, grant, green, growing, guerdon, hand out, heap, heartfelt, heedful, help to, hold forth,
hold out, hostess,
human, humane, hurting, husbandly, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, immature, impart, impassioned, impressionable, impubic, indemnify, inexperienced, infirm, inflamed, ingenuous, innocent, intact, iridescent, irritable, irritated, issue, itchy, juicy, juvenile, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, languishing, launch, lavish, lax, lenient, let have, light, local, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, luggage van, mail car,
mail van, maternal,
maudlin, mawkish, mellow, mellowy, melting, merciful, mete, mete out, mild, mindful, minor, moderate, mollified, money, mother-of-pearl, moving, nacreous, naive, nervous, new, new-fledged, nice, nonresistive, nonrigid, offer, office boy, office girl,
opalescent, orderly, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, page, painful, palace car, pale, parental, parlor car, passenger
car, passible, passionate, pastel, paternal, patient, patinaed, pay, pay by installments, pay on,
payment, pearly, pitying, poignant, pose, pour, prefer, prepay, present, presentation, prickly, proffer, proposal, propose, proposition, provocative, purpose, put forward, put up,
quiet, railway car,
rain, rankling, raw, receptive, recompense, red, reefer, refined, refrigerator car,
regardful, remit, remunerate, render, responsive, reward, ripening, romantic, roomette, ruthful, sad, salary, sappy, satisfy, sea-kindly, seaworthy, semigloss, sensible, sensitive, sentimental, serve, set before, shaky, shell out, shower, sickly, simple, skiff, skittish, sleeper, slip, smarting, smoker, smoking car, snow, snug, sober, soft, soft as putty, soft-colored,
soft-hued, softened,
softhearted,
solicitous, somber, soothing, sore, soul-stirring, specie, squire, steward, stewardess, stiff, stirring, stockcar, subdued, submit, subtle, suggest, supersensitive, susceptible, sweet, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, tank, tenderhearted, tetchy, thin-skinned, thoughtful, ticklish, tingling, tolerant, touching, touchy, trainbearer, tricky, troublesome, truck, unadult, underage, understanding, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, uninitiated, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unsound, unstable, untrained, unwell, usher, uxorious, van, vehicle, vernal, virginal, vouchsafe, vulnerable, waggon, wagon, warm, warm-hearted, warmhearted, waterproof, watertight, weak, weatherly, whisper-soft,
wifely, yeoman, yield, yielding, young, youthful