Definition of Tender

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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.

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Tender Quotations

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James

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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