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tender English

Meaning tender meaning

What does tender mean?
Definitions in simple English

tender Adjective

— sensitive, painful when touched — (of food) soft and easy to chew — loving, gentle — a means of paying for something

tender

— adjective given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality a tender heart a tender smile tender loving care tender memories a tender mother — adjective young and immature at a tender age — adjective hurting the tender spot on his jaw — adjective (= affectionate, fond, warm) having or displaying warmth or affection affectionate children a fond embrace fond of his nephew a tender glance a warm embrace — adjective easy to cut or chew tender beef — verb offer or present for acceptance — adjective (= untoughened) physically untoughened tender feet — verb make a tender of; in legal settlements — adjective (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition tender green shoots — noun ship that usually provides supplies to other ships — noun car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water — noun a boat for communication between ship and shore — noun something that can be used as an official medium of payment — verb (= tenderize, tenderise) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer tenderize meat — noun (= bid) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price — adjective (= crank) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail — noun (= attendant) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another — verb (= offer) propose a payment The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting

Synonyms tender synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tender?

tender English » English

soft gentle delicate offer bid affectionate young kind loving mild smooth fond sweet sensitive unripe compassionate sore immature green weak tame raw present polite fine docile tenderize short pleasant merciful limp friendly fresh fragile affable submit ship’s boat render propose proposal presentation nice meek kindly frail dainty cordial attender attendant warm

Topics tender topics

What do people use tender to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior

Love
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Language and thought Want

Offer
Daily life Food

Types of food
States Quality Made of, material

Soft, flimsy

Conjugation tender conjugation

How do you conjugate tender?

tender · verb

Examples tender examples

How do I use tender in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This beef is tender.
My father was no less affectionate and tender to me than my mother was.
She has a tender heart.
She gave him a tender kiss.
She is a tender girl of questionable morals.
Salzburg dumplings are sweet as love and tender as a kiss.
Old cows eat tender grass.
The meat is really tender.
The turkey was tender and juicy.
The meat was very tender inside.
The Royal Canadian Mint will no longer distribute the coin to financial institutions around the country, but it will remain legal tender.
Is this money still legal tender?
The meat was tender.
This meat is really tender.
My breasts are tender.
He is at once stern and tender.
I hereby tender my resignation.
Would God, I were the tender apple blossom, That floats and falls from off the twisted bough, To lie and faint within your silken bosom, Within your silken bosom as that does now.
Tom gave Mary a tender kiss.
Tears rolled down her tender cheeks.

Movie subtitles

A tender spot in the tenderloin.
I hereby tender my resignation.
Not long afterwards, Mari was on her feet again --- thanks to Dame Margarete's tender care.
And there was Georgia, caressing him with her smiles and tender glances.
It will bruise your pretty, tender flesh.
Anyone who's loved me, who's been so tender.
And I can do nothing less than tender you my resignation as governor of the State of New York.
Not as tender as he looks.
What is this tender sensation?
Tough or tender?
That meddling buoy-tender's near as full up as we are.
When she breaks the tender peel to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal.
Whoever would have thought my dear brother.. wouldbeso considerate as to get captured.. andleaveallEngland to my tender care?
You could say something nice. Something tender.
But you must be good to me, Alviano, and tender, my dear!
I want to be infinitely good to you and tender.
What was the matter with using the tender? Tender? I'll say it was.
I have long admired you. Deep with wonder on your sweet and maidenly virtue. Marveled at your tender loveliness.
There will be a bellboy and a waiter to witness the very tender scene. when we learn that I'm called to Europe.
Whoever would have thought my dear brother would be so considerate as to get captured and leave all of England to my tender care?
Just at the time in my life. when I needed something real. something wholesome. something tender.
It's a very tender, charming wish.
My face is very tender today.
He's kind, Mother, and more tender than anyone I've ever known. even more tender than you.
The tender blossoms of the cherry Fall and float to the ground To make room For the thronging fruit.
There's wood in the tender.
Doc'll need a lot of tender nursing when he comes to.
But bid me a tender farewell.
As a student of law, Jaffrey.. You know the bankruptcy court does not accept family tradition as legal tender.
Tender as can be.
This one will be so tender, it'll throw its arms around you.

News and current affairs

To ensure complete transparency in the tender process, and eliminate problems experienced in the past, Western advisors are assisting us.
The euro would, however, have to be accepted as legal tender in the UK, alongside the pound, and in the commonwealth countries, and this would demand close cooperation between the Bank of England and the ECB.
From Dublin on the shore of the Irish Sea to Bratislava in the foothills of the Carpathians, the same coins and banknotes are legal tender, and they are constantly pushing back the European Union's boundaries.
For, even as the central banking authority administered the price of liquidity, the price of risk was left to the tender mercies of the market.
For example, schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods should be allowed to tender for funds for educational innovation.
Anyone in China who mentions what happened on Tiananmen Square (and many other places) in June 1989 will soon find himself in the less-than-tender embrace of the State Security Police.
Mass media, because of its political usefulness, now seems exempted from these tender concerns.
If Greece defaults, the EU will be legally justified and politically motivated to insist that the euro remains its only legal tender.
In fact, Spanish coin remained legal tender in the US until 1857 - long after Spain itself had ceased to be a major power.
Before independence, Nigeria's legal tender was the British pound.
In the US, the Tea Party has made a return to the gold standard a part of its platform, and Utah is debating making gold and silver coins legal tender.
For example, the countries that were consigned by Roosevelt and Churchill to Stalin's un-tender mercies are now mostly part of the European Union.
Sarkozy's son, Jean, has already been elected to a major local government office at the tender age of 22.

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