tender
See also: tênder
Contents
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.də(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.dɚ/
- (NYC) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.də/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ten‧der
- Homophone: tinder (pin-pen merger)
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).
AdjectiveEdit
tender (comparative tenderer, superlative tenderest)
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, 3,2:
- […] poore Lord, is't I
That chaſe thee from thy Countrie, and expoſe
Thoſe tender limbes of thine […]
- […] poore Lord, is't I
- 2006, Mike Myers (as the voice of the title character), Shrek (movie)
- Be careful: that area is tender.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, 3,2:
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56
- the tender and delicate woman among you
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- 2001, Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)
- The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.
- 2001, Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- L'Estrange
- Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
- L'Estrange
- Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
- Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
- Bible, James v. 11
- The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
- Shakespeare
- You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, / Will never do him good.
- Fuller
- I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
- Young and inexperienced.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- a tender subject
- Francis Bacon
- Things that are tender and unpleasing.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- Shakespeare
- I love Valentine, / Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
- Burke
- tender of property
- Tillotson
- The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.
- Burke
SynonymsEdit
- (soft, yielding, delicate): nesh
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sensitive or painful
easy damaged, delicate
soft and easily chewed
fond, loving, gentle, sweet
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NounEdit
tender (countable and uncountable, plural tenders)
- (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv], page 72, column 1:
- Stay, and breath awhile. / Thou haſt redeem'd thy loſt opinion / And ſhew'd thou makeſt ſome tender of my life / In this faire reſcue thou haſt brought to mee.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
VerbEdit
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
- (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:
- To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].
- c. 1947, Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:
- Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.
- (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- The angrie king hath banished me the court:
- And therefore as thou louest and tendrest me,
- Be thou my aduocate vnto these peeres.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
- Firſt, heauen be the record to my ſpeech,
In the deuotion of a ſubiects loue,
Tendering the precious ſafetie of my Prince,
And free from other misbegotten hate,
Come I appealant to rhis [sic] Princely preſence.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1 (First Folio edition):
- And ſo good Capulet, which name I tender
- As dearely as my owne, be ſatisfied.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
tender (plural tenders)
- (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 201, [2]
- Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 201, [2]
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- submarine tender
- destroyer tender
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- 2015 April 1, Teresa Machan, “Queen Elizabeth passenger dies boarding a cruise ship tender [print version: Queen Elizabeth passenger dies after boarding mishap, 4 April 2015, p. T5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel)[3], archived from the original on 13 April 2015:
- A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the cruise ship anchors at sea). […] Gangway ramps can, on occasion, break free of either the ship or the tender, causing passengers or crew to fall into the sea.
SynonymsEdit
- (smaller boat): dinghy
Derived termsEdit
- (one who tends): bartender
- budtender
- (smaller boat used for transportation, naval ship that functions as a mobile base): tenderman
TranslationsEdit
fuel-carrying railroad car
nautical: ship functioning as mobile base for other ships
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nautical: a boat used for transportation btw a ship and the shore
VerbEdit
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
- To work on a tender.
- 1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 103:
- Meantime, I'll dig up what I can, but if they start fishing again, I start tendering.
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Middle French tendre (“stretch out”).
NounEdit
tender (plural tenders)
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
- We will submit our tender to you within the week.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
- [...] if she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the man,—as you know all,—hath a contemptible spirit.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
TranslationsEdit
means of payment
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law: an offer to buy or sell something
See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
- (formal) To offer, to give.
- to tender one’s resignation
- Shakespeare
- You see how all conditions, how all minds, […] tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
- to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
formal: to offer, give
to offer a payment
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ten‧der
NounEdit
tender m (plural tenders, diminutive tendertje n)
- (finance) tender
- (rail transport) coal-car
SynonymsEdit
- (finance) aanbesteding
ItalianEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tender m inan
- tender (a railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel)
DeclensionEdit
declension of tender
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō, from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
tender (first-person singular present indicative tendo, past participle tendido)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of the Portuguese -er verb tender
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō, from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
tender (first-person singular present tiendo, first-person singular preterite tendí, past participle tendido)
- (transitive) to spread, to stretch out
- (transitive) to lay (cable)
- (transitive) to make (a bed)
- (transitive) to hang up (clothes)
- (transitive) to build (a bridge across an expanse)
- (transitive) to extend (the hand)
- (transitive) to floor (with a punch), to stretch out
- (transitive) to cast (a net)
- (transitive) to set (a trap)
- (transitive) to coat (with plaster)
- (intransitive) to tend to, to have a tendency
- (reflexive) to lay oneself down
ConjugationEdit
- Rule: e becomes ie in stressed syllables.
| infinitive | tender | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | tendiendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | tendido | tendida | |||||
| plural | tendidos | tendidas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tiendo | tiendestú tendésvos |
tiende | tendemos | tendéis | tienden | |
| imperfect | tendía | tendías | tendía | tendíamos | tendíais | tendían | |
| preterite | tendí | tendiste | tendió | tendimos | tendisteis | tendieron | |
| future | tenderé | tenderás | tenderá | tenderemos | tenderéis | tenderán | |
| conditional | tendería | tenderías | tendería | tenderíamos | tenderíais | tenderían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tienda | tiendas | tienda | tendamos | tendáis | tiendan | |
| imperfect (ra) |
tendiera | tendieras | tendiera | tendiéramos | tendierais | tendieran | |
| imperfect (se) |
tendiese | tendieses | tendiese | tendiésemos | tendieseis | tendiesen | |
| future1 | tendiere | tendieres | tendiere | tendiéremos | tendiereis | tendieren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | tiendetú tendévos |
tienda | tendamos | tended | tiendan | ||
| negative | no tiendas | no tienda | no tendamos | no tendáis | no tiendan | ||
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.