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Revision as of 03:11, 10 March 2019

See also: tênder

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).

Adjective

tender (comparative tenderer, superlative tenderest)

  1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, 3,2:
      […] poore Lord, is't I
      That chaſe thee from thy Countrie, and expoſe
      Thoſe tender limbes of thine […]
    • 2006, Mike Myers (as the voice of the title character), Shrek (movie)
      Be careful: that area is tender.
  2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
    tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
  3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
    • Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56
      the tender and delicate woman among you
  4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
    • 2001, Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)
      The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.
  5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
    • L'Estrange
      Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
  6. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
    Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
    • Bible, James v. 11
      The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
    • Shakespeare
      You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, / Will never do him good.
    • Fuller
      I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
  7. Young and inexperienced.
  8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
    tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
  9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
    a tender subject
    • Francis Bacon
      Things that are tender and unpleasing.
  10. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
  11. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
    • Shakespeare
      I love Valentine, / Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
  12. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
    • Burke
      tender of property
    • Tillotson
      The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.
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Noun

tender (countable and uncountable, plural tenders)

  1. (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
  2. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

  1. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:
      To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].
    • c. 1947 Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:
      Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.
  2. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
      The angrie king hath banished me the court:
      And therefore as thou louest and tendrest me,
      Be thou my aduocate vnto these peeres.
    • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1 (First Folio edition):
      And ſo good Capulet, which name I tender
      As dearely as my owne, be ſatisfied.

Etymology 2

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Noun

tender (plural tenders)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
  2. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 201, [2]
      Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.
  3. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
    submarine tender
    destroyer tender
  4. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
    • 2015 April 1, Teresa Machan, “Queen Elizabeth passenger dies boarding a cruise ship tender [print version: Queen Elizabeth passenger dies after boarding mishap, 4 April 2015, p. T5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel)‎[3], archived from the original on 13 April 2015:
      A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the cruise ship anchors at sea). […] Gangway ramps can, on occasion, break free of either the ship or the tender, causing passengers or crew to fall into the sea.
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Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

  1. To work on a tender.
    • 1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 103:
      Meantime, I'll dig up what I can, but if they start fishing again, I start tendering.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French tendre (“stretch out”).

Noun

tender (plural tenders)

  1. A 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
  3. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
    We will submit our tender to you within the week.
  4. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
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Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

  1. (formal) To offer, to give.
    to tender one’s resignation
    • Shakespeare
      You see how all conditions, how all minds, […] tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.
    • 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.
  2. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tender.

Pronunciation

Noun

tender m (plural tenders, diminutive tendertje n)

  1. (finance) tender
  2. (rail transport) coal-car

Synonyms

Italian

Verb

tender

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Apocopic form of tendere

Middle English

Noun

tender

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of tinder

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

tender m inan

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

Declension

Declension of tender
singular plural
nominative tender tendry
genitive tendra tendrów
dative tendrowi tendrom
accusative tender tendry
instrumental tendrem tendrami
locative tendrze tendrach
vocative tendrze tendry

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō, from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

Verb

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  1. to tend
  2. to trend

Conjugation

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō, from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tenˈdeɾ/ [t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]

Verb

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  1. (transitive) to spread, to stretch out
  2. (transitive) to lay (cable)
  3. (transitive) to make (a bed)
  4. (transitive) to hang up (clothes)
  5. (transitive) to build (a bridge across an expanse)
  6. (transitive) to extend (the hand)
  7. (transitive) to floor (with a punch), to stretch out
  8. (transitive) to cast (a net)
  9. (transitive) to set (a trap)
  10. (transitive) to coat (with plaster)
  11. (intransitive) to tend to, to have a tendency
  12. (reflexive) to lay oneself down

Conjugation

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