tender

1. n. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. Source: opted

2. n. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. Source: opted

3. n. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. Source: opted

4. v. t. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To offer in words; to present for acceptance. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. n. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. Source: opted

9. superl. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. Source: opted

10. superl. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. Source: opted

11. superl. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. Source: opted

12. superl. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. Source: opted

13. superl. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. Source: opted

14. superl. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. Source: opted

15. superl. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. Source: opted

16. superl. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. Source: opted

17. superl. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. Source: opted

18. superl. Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. Source: opted

19. n. Regard; care; kind concern. Source: opted

20. v. t. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. Source: opted

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