Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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tender | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
delicate | No | Yes | No | No |
tender (noun) | delicate (noun) |
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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 |
tender (adjective) | delicate (adjective) |
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easy to cut or chew | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury |
physically untoughened | easily broken or damaged or destroyed |
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality | difficult to handle; requiring great tact |
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition | developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety |
having or displaying warmth or affection | of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely |
hurting | marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique |
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | easily hurt |
young and immature |
tender (verb) | delicate (verb) |
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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 |