Tender
['tendə] or ['tɛndɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:弗农
同義詞及近義詞:
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.
埃利斯手打
同義詞及反義詞:
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
杰克校對
解釋/意思:
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.
亚历克斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr. Gardener? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The Captain did not in the least hear him or look at the stout gentleman in the nightcap, about whom he professed to have such a tender interest. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I knew its tender nature very well. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- For it would be easy to see that she has always been brought up in a tender and happy home, even if she had not told me so with great love for it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It weighs 272,000 pounds, with tender 70 feet long, and has a draw-bar pull of 30,700 pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There was a crowd about it all day long, and the tenders were constantly flying to and fro with important faces and rattling money boxes. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She tendered not even a remonstrance; she testified no shade of surprise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The former Protector tendered him the oaths, and presented him with the insignia of office, performing the ceremonies of installation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Bar tendered the weather, as a subject neatly aloof from official reserve, for the Foreman's consideration. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Permit me, Mr. Jarndyce, to repeat to yourself, and to these ladies, the assurance I have already tendered to Mr. Skimpole. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Three or four days of steady application tendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Many, however, pressed around him, earnestly begging him not to send them away; and, with anxious faces, tendering back their free papers. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It is impossible, she said, tendering back the casket. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The good was all to myself, by making you an object of the tenderest affection to me. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Great Range of Mechanisms to Treat the Tenderest Pods and Smallest Seeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Didst not note how carefully he selected the plumpest and tenderest of the lot? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It did not seem at all comical to Meg, who kissed and caressed the afflicted heroine in the tenderest manner. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Dare any soul on earth breathe a word against the sweetest, the purest, the tenderest, the most angelical of young women? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
哈蒂編輯