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Definition of Tender

Tender One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. To offer in words; to present for acceptance. An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. Regard; care; kind concern. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. Related Definitions: Able, Acceptance, Adapted, Amount, An, And, Another, Anxious, Any, Apt, As, Attached, Attend, Be, Bid, Broken, Bruised, By, Car, Care, Careful, Carrying, Cause, Causing, Compassion, Compassionate, Concern, Contract, Convey, Dear, Debt, Delicate, Demand, Due, Easily, Effeminate, Either, Employed, Endure, Especially, Esteem, Excite, Excited, Exciting, Expressive, Favor, Feeling, Firm, Flesh, For, Forfeiture, Forgiveness, Friendship, Fruit, Fuel, Gentle, Give, Good, Grief, Hard, Hardly, Hardship, Have, Heeling, Hence, Immature, Impressed, Impression, In, Incurred, Injure, Injured, Intelligence, Interest, Inviolate, Kind, Kindness, Like, Loan, Locomotive, Love, Made, Mild, Money, Nonpayment, Nonperformance, Not, Note, Nurse, Obligation, Of, Offer, Offered, One, Or, Order, Other, Over, Pain, Pained, Pathetic, Pay, Payment, Penalty, Performed, Person, Physically, Pitiful, Pity, Precious, Present, Proposal, Regard, Rent, Said, Sail, Satisfaction, Save, Sensible, Service, Strain, Subject, Supply, Susceptible, Sympathetic, Sympathy, Tender, The, Them, Thing, To, Too, Toward, Under, Unwilling, Value, Vessel, Water, Weak, When, Which, Who, With, Would

Tender Quotations When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman

Tender Translations tender in Afrikaans is lieflik, soet, sorgvuldig tender in Dutch is gunning, aanbesteding tender in Finnish is makea tender in French is doux, adjudication, affectieux tender in German is Angebot, zart, anbieten tender in Italian is dolce tender in Latin is tener tenera tenerum tender in Portuguese is encarregado tender in Spanish is subasta, carinoso, dulce, destajo

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