Definition of "tender" in Englisch

adjective

1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.

2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

   • tender plants
   • tender flesh
   • tender fruit

3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

   • The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.

5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

6. Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

   • Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.

7. Young and inexperienced.

   • I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven.

8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

   • tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

   • a tender subject

10. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

11. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

12. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

noun

1. (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

2. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

adverb

1. tenderly

verb

1. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

   • 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 […].
   • 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.

2. (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

noun

1. (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.

2. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

3. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

   • submarine tender
   • destroyer tender