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Care, kind concern, regard.
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The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
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Sensitive or painful to the touch.
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Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
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tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
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Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
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(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
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Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
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Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
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Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
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Young and inexperienced.
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Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
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tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
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Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
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a tender subject
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Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
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Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
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Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
Examples of tender in a Sentence
His eyes were so tender — so sweet.
Her neck was tender and swallowing was painful.
Nicholas turned with a tender smile on his face.
He ate anyway, surprised to find the chicken tender and juicy and the veggies still slightly crisp and well-seasoned.
His arm draped across her shoulder in a tender but possessive way.
He could be tender and thoughtful, as well as charming.
She sighed, delighting in the tender moment.
I can't find words for how beautiful that was, tender and haunting all at once.
A creditor is not bound to give change to the debtor, whose duty it is to make tender in lawful money the whole amount due, or more, without asking for change.
Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than ever.
It cannot be grown in the open air in Britain, as it requires protection from frost, and is more tender than the Brazilian pine.
Tender, compassionate, weak, like a human, and failing miserably to take my place.
She slowly moved from her position and crawled down the tree with effort, the movement sending pain through her tender wrist.
The toll booth requested a small tender before allowing them to pass through.
She turned slowly, propelled by a tender breeze from the cold night air that filled the room.
The meat was well cooked and tender, which made up for the lack of seasonings.
The dark eyes were tender.
Contracts for large or important works or for the supply of large amounts of goods are usually put out to tender in order to secure the lowest price.
Sonya did not succumb to the tender tone Natasha used toward her.
The executive board met to decide how much they should tender the old office building for.
His face was above hers, the blue eyes tender and searching.
Six years later, in 1899, the change was completed by an act making gold legal tender at the rate of I for Rs.15, or at the rate of is.
The deadline tender submissions is 12.30pm, Friday 30 September 2005.
In November 1899 a committee was appointed by the Colonial Office for the further examination of the scheme, and towards the end of 1900 a tender was accepted for the manufacture and laying of a submarine cable between the Island of Vancouver and Queensland and New Zealand for the sum of £1,795,000, the work to be completed by the 31st of December 1902.
That the passion which she inspired in him was tender, pure and fitted to raise to a higher level a nature which in some 1 The Journal for 1755 records that during that year, besides writing and translating a great deal in Latin and French, he had read, amongst other works, Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares, his Brutus, all his Orations, his dialogues De amicitia and De senectute, Terence (twice), and Pliny's Epistles.
The list of seeds given for the southern states in January may now be used at the north, while for most of the southern states tender vegetables, such as egg plant, okra, sweet potatoes, melon, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, &c., may be sown and planted.
He was unusually tender and kind to me, and for a brief space the shadow lifted.
Trees and grass are supple and tender shoots, But dry and withered when dead.
Burt's Bees Baby Bee Diaper Ointment-This ointment is rich with vitamins A and E and is perfect for baby's tender skin.
Bring to boil and simmer until the potatoes are tender.
With a tender kiss on her forehead, Rhyn stepped away.
It was the first time she had heard him call her that, and the tender smile on Mum's face made it clear that she was pleased.
This attention to detail and concern for excellent animal husbandry produces tender meat consistent in quality and flavor throughout the year.
When, in the early years of steam navigation, the English government made known its desire to substitute steam vessels for the sailing ships then employed in the mail service between England and America, Cunard heartily entered into the scheme, came to England, and accepted the government tender for carrying it out.
Thus a shoot will grow more vigorously whilst waving in the air than when nailed close to the wall; consequently a weak shoot should be left free, whilst its stronger antagonist should be restrained; and a luxuriant shoot may be retarded for some time by having its tender extremity pinched off to allow a weaker shoot to overtake it.
There is no shortage of plants to choose from among hardy and half-hardy annuals or hardy and tender perennials.
Californian Laurel (Umbellularia Californica) - A handsome evergreen tree, seldom planted, though hardy in our southern gardens and suited to walls where too tender for the open.
The restaurant is famous for its tender, delicious roast pork and cube steak; meat lovers are particularly satified with its menu.
Many fungi (Phallus, Agaricus, Fumago, &c.) when strongly growing put out ribbon-like or cylindrical cords, or sheet-like mycelial plates of numerous parallel hyphae, all growing together equally, and fusing by anastomoses, and in this way extend long distances in the soil, or over the surfaces of leaves, branches, &c. These mycelial strands may be white and tender, or the outer hyphae may be hard and black, and very often the resemblance of the subterranean forms to a root is so marked that they are termed rhizomorphs.
My wife and I join in affectionate remembrances and greetings to yourself and your aunt, and in the sincere tender of our sympathies.
Sir James Horlick acquired the estate in 1944 he wished to establish a garden to grow his more tender rhododendrons.
The tender meat of skate clinging to the strip of cartilage is reminiscent of pork ribs.
I like how it sounds, what Berman talks about and the way he expresses himself it's tender, but not saccharine.
Areas of skin that become scaly, itchy, tender or red, or areas that ooze, bleed or become crusty.
However, the decision on tender acceptance must be taken by an Officer of appropriate seniority, not otherwise involved in the tender process.
Presently there came walks in the long shrubbery, talks in the Belvedere, and I know not what tender familiarity.
In the first place, the so-called internal causes of disease is probably a mere phrase covering our ignorance of the factors at work, and although a certain convenience attaches to the distinction between those cases where tender breeds of plants apparently exhibit internal predisposition to suffer more readily than others from parasites, low temperatures, excessive growth, &c.as is the case with some grafted plants, cultivated hybrids, &c.the mystery involved in the phrase internal causes only exists until we find what action of the living or nonliving environment of the essential mechanism of the plant has upset its equilibrium.
Thus let an engine and tender weighing 80 tons haul vehicles weighing 200 tons at a uniform speed on the level of 40 m.
H.P. - (Were ?-W v r v)V ?2240WV ?2240WVa (22) 55 0 550 550G 550g where W e is weight of engine and tender in tons, Wv the weight of vehicles in tons, W the weight of train in tons =W e r e and r z, the respective engine and vehicle resistances taken from the curves fig.
If the starting resistance of the whole train be estimated at 16 lb per ton, this engine would be able to start 1.163 tons on the level, or about 400 tons on a gradient of I in 75, both these figures including the weight of the engine and tender, which would be about 100 tons.