tender
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- n something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- n someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- n a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- n car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- n a boat for communication between ship and shore
- n ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- v offer or present for acceptance
- v propose a payment
- v make a tender of; in legal settlements
- v make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
tenderize meat - a given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
a tender heart
a tender smile
tender loving care
tender memories
a tender mother - s hurting
the tender spot on his jaw - s young and immature
at a tender age - s having or displaying warmth or affection
a tender glance - a easy to cut or chew
tender beef - a physically untoughened
tender feet - s (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- s (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
tender green shoots
- On a Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting.
- So, as a clinician, I have to treat everyone as if they had tender ears.
- In surprise, the editors began writing enthusiastically that "it really worked," made a cheap chuck steak as tender and nearly as flavorful as a sirloin, a tough stewing hen tender .