Definition of tender
- n. - One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a
nurse.
- n. - A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them
with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
- n. - A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of
fuel and water.
- 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.
- v. t. - To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. - The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of
an obligation.
- superl. - Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not
firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
- superl. - Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- superl. - Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure
hardship; immature; effeminate.
- 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.
- superl. - Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- superl. - Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with
of.
- superl. - Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
- superl. - Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of
the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
expostulations; a tender strain.
- superl. - Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as,
a tender subject.
- superl. - Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a
vessel.
- n. - Regard; care; kind concern.
- v. t. - To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to
regard; to esteem; to value.