Definitions For Tender

noun

• Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
• A boat for communication between ship and shore
• Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
• A formal proposal to buy at a specified price
• Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
• Something that can be used as an official medium of payment

verb

• Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
• Make a tender of; in legal settlements
• Offer or present for acceptance
• Propose a payment

adjective

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
• Having or displaying warmth or affection
• Young and immature
• Hurting
• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

adjective

• Easy to cut or chew
• Physically untoughened
• Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality