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Adjective tender has 8 senses
- tender - given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"
Antonyms: tough, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious, tough-minded, unsentimental
- sensitive, sore, tender - hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
- tender, vulnerable - susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender age"
Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
- affectionate, caring, fond, lovesome, tender, warm - having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"
Antonym: unloving (indirect, via loving)
- tender - easy to cut or chew; "tender beef"
Antonyms: tough, cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery, chewy, coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery, sinewy, stringy, unchewable, hempen, fibrous
- tender, untoughened - physically untoughened; "tender feet"
Antonyms: tough, toughened, calloused, thickened, enured, inured, hardened, weather-beaten
- crank, cranky, tender, tippy - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Antonym: stable (indirect, via unstable)
- tender - (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"
Antonym: rugged (indirect, via delicate)
Noun tender has 6 senses
- tender, legal tender - something used as an official medium of payment
--1 is a kind of medium of exchange, monetary system
--1 has particulars: food stamp
- attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
--2 is a kind of assistant, helper, help, supporter
--2 has particulars: | | companion; baggageman; batman; bellboy, bellman, bellhop; bridesmaid, maid of honor; caddie, golf caddie; checker; courtier; cupbearer; equerry; escort; esquire; famulus; gillie; groomsman; lifeguard, lifesaver; linkboy, linkman; loader; matron of honor; orderly, hospital attendant; orderly; page, varlet; page; racker; rocker; second; servitor; squire; squire, gallant; steward, flight attendant; stretcher-bearer, litter-bearer; trainbearer; waker, rouser, arouser |
- bid, tender - a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
--3 is a kind of offer, offering
--3 has particulars: overbid; buyout bid
- tender - car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
--4 is a kind of car, railcar, railway car, railroad car
- tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutter - a boat for communication between ship and shore
--5 is a kind of boat
--5 has particulars: gig
- tender, supply ship - ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
--6 is a kind of ship
Verb tender has 4 senses
- tender - offer or present for acceptance
--1 is one way to give, gift, present
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something to somebody
- offer, bid, tender - propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
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- tender - make a tender of; in legal settlements
--3 is one way to offer, proffer
Sample sentence:
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- tender, tenderize, tenderise - make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat"
--4 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
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