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Definition tender

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.
2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
7. Young and inexperienced.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
10. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

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.
2. (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

Etymology 2

From tend +‎ -er.

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.
3. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
4. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.

Verb

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

1. To work on a tender.

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.
2. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
3. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Verb

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

1. (formal) To offer, to give.
2. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

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