6. (adj)tender, supply ship ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
7. (adj)tender given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"
8. (adj)sensitive, sore, raw, tender hurting "the tender spot on his jaw"
9. (adj)tender young and immature "at a tender age"
10. (adj)affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm having or displaying warmth or affection "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"
1. (noun)Tender one who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse
2. (noun)Tender a vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like
3. (noun)Tender a car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water
4. (noun)Tender 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
5. (noun)Tender 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
6. (noun)Tender the thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation
8. Tender easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
9. Tender sensible to impression and pain; easily pained
10. Tender physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate
11. Tender susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic
12. Tender exciting kind concern; dear; precious
13. Tender careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of
14. Tender unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild
15. Tender adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
16. Tender apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject
17. Tender heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel