Definition of tenderest Tenderest
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What does tenderest mean?
Part of speech
🔤- tenderest, adjective, superlative of tender.
WordNet
NounPlural: tenders |
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| tender - a boat for communication between ship and shore | ||
| ship's boat, pinnace, cutter | ||
| boat a small vessel for travel on water | ||
| tender - something that can be used as an official medium of payment | ||
| legal tender, stamp | ||
| medium of exchange, monetary system anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region | ||
| tender - ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | ||
| supply ship | ||
| tender - car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | ||
| tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | ||
| attendant, attender | ||
| assistant, helper, help, supporter a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" | ||
| companion one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | ||
| baggageman an attendant who takes care of baggage | ||
| batman an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | ||
| bellboy, bellhop, bellman someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | ||
| bridesmaid, maid of honor an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | ||
| caddie, golf caddie an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | ||
| checker one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | ||
| courtier an attendant at the court of a sovereign | ||
| cupbearer the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine | ||
| equerry a personal attendant of the British royal family | ||
| escort the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | ||
| esquire a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name | ||
| famulus a close attendant (as to a scholar) | ||
| gillie a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | ||
| groomsman a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | ||
| lifeguard, lifesaver an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | ||
| linkboy, linkman (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | ||
| loader an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | ||
| matron of honor a married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding | ||
| hospital attendant, orderly a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | ||
| orderly a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | ||
| varlet, page one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | ||
| page one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | ||
| racker an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack | ||
| rocker a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro | ||
| second a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" | ||
| servitor someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else | ||
| squire an English country landowner | ||
| gallant, squire an English country landowner | ||
| flight attendant, steward someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else | ||
| litter-bearer, stretcher-bearer one who helps carry a stretcher | ||
| trainbearer one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion | ||
| tender - a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | ||
| bid | ||
| offer, offering something offered (as a proposal or bid); "noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds" | ||
| overbid (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | ||
Verb |
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| tender - make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" | ||
| tenderize, tenderise | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| tender - make a tender of; in legal settlements | ||
| proffer, offer put forward for consideration; "He offered his opinion" | ||
| tender - offer or present for acceptance | ||
| gift, present, give bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" | ||
| tender - propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" | ||
| offer, bid | ||
| dicker, bargain negotiate the terms of an exchange; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar" | ||
| auction sale, vendue, auction the public sale of something to the highest bidder | ||
| by-bid bid on behalf of someone else | ||
| subscribe adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion" | ||
| overbid bid more than the object is worth | ||
| underbid bid too low | ||
| outbid bid higher than others | ||
| underbid bid too low | ||
Adjectivetender, tenderer, tenderest |
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| tender - easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" | ||
| tough resistant to cutting or chewing | ||
| comestible, eatable, edible suitable for use as food | ||
| chewable, cuttable easy to cut or chew | ||
| crispy, crisp brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand" | ||
| flakey, flaky made of or easily forming flakes | ||
| tender - given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" | ||
| tough resistant to cutting or chewing | ||
| soft not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting" | ||
| protective (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful; "protective of his reputation" | ||
| tender - physically untoughened; "tender feet" | ||
| untoughened | ||
| toughened, tough resistant to cutting or chewing | ||
| weak deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind" | ||
| tender - (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots" | ||
| delicate exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" | ||
| tender - young and immature; "at a tender age" | ||
| tender - having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" | ||
| affectionate, fond, lovesome, warm | ||
| loving feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances" | ||
| tender - hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" | ||
| sensitive, sore, raw | ||
| painful causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" | ||
| tender - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | ||
| crank, cranky, tippy | ||
| unstable highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- tender (Noun)
Someone who tends or waits on someone. - tender (Noun)
A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water. - tender (Noun)
A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships. - tender (Noun)
A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore. - tender (Noun)
A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card . - tender (Noun)
A formal offer to buy or sell something. - tender (Noun)
Any offer or proposal made for acceptance. - tender (Verb)
To make tender or delicate; to weaken. - tender (Verb)
To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly. - tender (Verb)
To offer, to give. - tender (Verb)
To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions. - tender (Adjective)
Sensitive or painful to be touched. - tender (Adjective)
Soft and easily chewed. - tender (Adjective)
Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tender (n.)
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. - tender (n.)
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. - tender (n.)
A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. - tender (v. t.)
To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. - tender (v. t.)
To offer in words; to present for acceptance. - tender (n.)
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. - tender (n.)
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. - tender (n.)
The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. - tender (superl.)
Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. - tender (superl.)
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. - tender (superl.)
Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. - tender (superl.)
Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. - tender (superl.)
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. - tender (superl.)
Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. - tender (superl.)
Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. - tender (superl.)
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. - tender (superl.)
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. - tender (superl.)
Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. - tender (n.)
Regard; care; kind concern. - tender (v. t.)
To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Special procedure to generate competing offers from different bidders. -
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Easy to cut or chew.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tender
ten′dėr, v.t. to stretch out or offer for acceptance, esp. to offer to supply certain commodities for a certain period at rates specified.—n. an offer or proposal, esp. of some service, also the paper containing it: the thing offered, the actual production and formal offer of a sum due in legal money, or an offer of services to be performed, in order to save the consequences of non-payment or non-performance -
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ten′dėr, adj. soft, delicate: easily impressed or injured: not hardy: fragile: weak and feeble: easily moved to pity, love, &c.: careful not to injure (with of): unwilling to cause pain: apt to cause pain: pathetic, expressive of the softer passions: compassionate, loving, affectionate: young and inexperienced: weakly in health: delicate, requiring careful handling: quick, keen: apt to lean over under sail.—n. Ten′der-foot, one not yet hardened to life in the prairie, mining-camp, &c.: a new-comer.—adj. Ten′der-heart′ed, full of feeling.—adv. Ten′der-heart′edly.—n. Ten′der-heart′edness.—adj. Ten′der-heft′ed (Shak.), having great tenderness.—ns. Ten′derling, one too much coddled, an effeminate fellow: one of the first horns of a deer; Ten′der-loin, the tenderest part of the loin of beef, pork, &c., lying close to the ventral side of the lumbar vertebræ.—adv. Ten′derly.—n. Ten′derness. [Fr. tendre—L. tener, allied to tenuis, thin.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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patache, a small vessel employed in the King’s service, on various occasions; as, to receive volunteers and impressed men, and convey them to a distant place; to attend on ships of war or squadrons; and to carry intelligence or orders from one place to another, &c.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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A small vessel duly commanded, and employed to attend a larger one, to supply her with stores, to carry intelligence or volunteers and impressed men to receiving ships, &c. An enemy's ship captured by cutters or boats fitted out as tenders by men-of-war, but without any commission or authority from the admiralty, will not insure a prize to the benefit of the ship. The condemnation will be as a droit of admiralty, on the principle that an officer does not retain his commission for the purposes of prize on board another ship; but if captured by one of her boats, and brought to the ship, she is good prize, as with slaves. Tender is also a synonym of crank; thus, a spar may be tender.
