Tender

(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' .

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• You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr. Gardener? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I knew its tender nature very well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It weighs 272,000 pounds, with tender 70 feet long, and has a draw-bar pull of 30,700 pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She tendered not even a remonstrance; she testified no shade of surprise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The former Protector tendered him the oaths, and presented him with the insignia of office, performing the ceremonies of installation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Bar tendered the weather, as a subject neatly aloof from official reserve, for the Foreman's consideration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Permit me, Mr. Jarndyce, to repeat to yourself, and to these ladies, the assurance I have already tendered to Mr. Skimpole. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Three or four days of steady application tendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Many, however, pressed around him, earnestly begging him not to send them away; and, with anxious faces, tendering back their free papers. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is impossible, she said, tendering back the casket. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The good was all to myself, by making you an object of the tenderest affection to me. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Great Range of Mechanisms to Treat the Tenderest Pods and Smallest Seeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Didst not note how carefully he selected the plumpest and tenderest of the lot? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. 埃德加·赖斯·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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.

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