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Definition of tender:

  • (noun) something used as an official medium of payment
  • (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
  • (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
  • (noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
  • (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore
  • (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
  • (verb) offer or present for acceptance
  • (verb) propose a payment;
  • (verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements
  • (adjective) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "a tender mother"
  • (adjective) easy to cut or chew; "tender beef"
  • (adjective) physically untoughened; "tender feet"
  • (adjective) hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
  • (adjective) young and immature; "at a tender age"
  • (adjective) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

Sentence Examples:

Cut them in pieces, and stew in a granite-ware saucepan until tender.

The ricebird diet makes the tip of its tail tender and sweet.

This time with a tone of tender reproach which made him feel like a profligate.

This time with a tone of tender reproach which made him feel like a profligate.

Put into a granite-ware kettle, cover with boiling water, and cook gently until tender.

Advice on this difficult question was also tendered from a quarter whence it was least expected.

All the works of this most profligate of friars are tender and holy beyond description.

Whence issues that moral influence which, to the tender mind, is paramount over all formal teaching?

The small iceboats were built, so that two passengers could ride beside the steersman and sheet tender.

She was from the very first treated accordingly, without maudlin consideration for her tender helplessness.

After this he became silent for a moment as if overcome by tender recollections amidst his maudlin fit.

The flesh is firm, fine-grained, juicy and tender without pulpiness and with a peculiarly rich aromatic flavor.

As such was it, that they arrogated the power of tendering oaths, and listening to voluntary evidences?

The flesh is tender, almost melting, with none of the tough pulpiness of the most of our hardy grapes.

Then put them into a granite-ware kettle and stew until tender, which will take from one to two hours.

It was their own Aphrodite, delicate, tender and deadly as the foam of the sea whence she came to them.

He said, with a tender, pathetic glance in the direction whence the little figure had vanished; "Heaven help me!"

He is taken, Signore, with many more of tender years, into the galleys, whence may our Lady give him a save deliverance!

The tender pity he had felt for her in his maudlin condition made room for something akin to contempt and dislike.

Inasmuch as we were young and tender, we were overwhelmed with advice of such various and contradictory kinds that we were almost disheartened.

Only seek to nourish and care for the tender babes in the other houses, whence Friends are likely to be taken also.

He showed tender recollection of us all, but scarcely durst think of his father, and hardly appeared to wish to see his mother.

Tender, and full of sentiment were the sounds at first, as if the musician were acting the scene of the opera whence they came.

Her scruples did not, however, extend so far as to refusing tenders of coin, inasmuch as without it her larder would stay empty.

Children born on or brought to the island are educated in the worst vices, and when still of tender years are already profligate or depraved.

From all hazard and alarm of this sort he was speedily relieved, by propositions for peace, which came spontaneously tendered by the Carthaginian general.

Their legal tender is silver, cut into little squares of different weights; gold is the baser coin, and is about of the same value as our silver.

Now is the season for you to bring the choice and tender shrubs, etc., out of the Conservatory; such as you durst not adventure forth in March.

Considering the tender years of most of the freshmen it is a matter for great congratulation that they made such good stands against the bullet-headed townees.

Such coins, if limited in amount, and if given the usual restricted legal tender, do not need redemption to circulate at face value, even when made of baser metals.

During many months I was confined to a sickbed, from whence, but for the tender and unremitting attentions of my wife, I should never have risen again.

From whence, except from above, can come to me, so many things tender, ennobling, sweet, true, pure, with which my heart is filled as I speak to you?

I saw his ship sail away, at that exceedingly tender age when a human being is involved in mummy-like cerements, and cannot properly be said to exist at all.

He now no longer appeared to me as one to whom, though I could not but revere him, I durst not confess myself; but as a generous, anxious, and tender friend.

Noble as we instinctively feel the man to be, tender as is the passion wherewith he envelops the object of his love, the shadow of the Cross is ever there.

The music constantly rushes on into feverish excitement, only to expend its force and die away to tender sadness, whence in a moment it lashes itself again into new fury.

And then the blackness was torn open with a coruscating, soundless flash, and the tender was in an instant nothing but a white cloud of rapidly dissipating atoms!

Bronson and the youths left the hotel about two o'clock in the afternoon, and proceeded to the dock whence the tender was to carry them to their steamer.

During this time he was tender and sensitive as to the least sin; 'now I durst not take a pin or a stick, my conscience would smart at every touch.'

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvelous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

They were forced from home and their parents at a tender age and sent to that far country, whence they had no prospect of ever returning, or hearing from their friends.

From the big sheep men that passed their way, she begged the "dogie" lambs which they were glad to give away, and by tender care she preserved their lives.

For I durst not stay long in a place, being afraid both of professor and profane, lest, being a tender young man, I should be hurt by conversing much with either.

Who he was and whence he came nobody had any idea, but the little boy was received as if he had been a kinsman, and he received the most constant and tender care.

And press on, friendly Huntress, to your port, whence the winged message may speed on its way to the stately lady with the tender eyes, who waits for tidings in her distant home.