Tender

['tendə] or ['tɛndɚ]

解释:

(noun.) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships.

(noun.) a boat for communication between ship and shore.

(noun.) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water.

(noun.) 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; 'tenderize meat'.

(verb.) make a tender of; in legal settlements.

(verb.) offer or present for acceptance.

(adj.) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; 'tender green shoots' .

(adj.) young and immature; 'at a tender age' .

(adj.) easy to cut or chew; 'tender beef' .

(adj.) physically untoughened; 'tender feet' .

(adj.) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; 'a tender heart'; 'a tender smile'; 'tender loving care'; 'tender memories'; 'a tender mother' .

手打:尼尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

(n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

(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.

(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

(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.

(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.

(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.

(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

录入:弗农

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Soft, delicate, not firm.[2]. Weak, feeble, young, infantile, youthful, not strong.[3]. Effeminate, feminine, womanly, not hardy, not robust.[4]. Sensitive, easily pained.[5]. Compassionate, kind, affectionate, sympathetic, pitiful, merciful, lenient, mild, tender-hearted.[6]. Pathetic, affecting, touching.[7]. Painful (to speak of or treat of), unpleasant, disagreeable.

v. a. Offer, proffer, present, volunteer.

n. [1]. Attendant.[2]. Offer, proffer, proposal.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:delicate, frail, impressible, susceptible, yielding, soft, effeminate, weak,feeble, compassionate, affectionate, careful, jealous, gentle, mild, meek,pitiful, merciful, pathetic

ANT:Strong, sturdy, hardy, robust, tough, iron, pitiless, unmerciful, cruel,hard-hearted, careless, liberal, lavish, unchary, ungentle, rough, rude,coarse, unsentimental, unmoving, unfeeling, unimpressive, unimpassioned,unimpressed

SYN:Offer, proffer, propose, bid, produce, present

ANT:Withhold, withdraw, retain, appropriate

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解释:

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 vertebr?—adv. Ten′derly.—n. Ten′derness.

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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