Tender vs. Sore
Tenderadjective
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Tenderadjective
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
Tenderadjective
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
Tenderadjective
(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
Tenderadjective
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tenderadjective
Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
Tenderadjective
Young and inexperienced.
Tenderadjective
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
Tenderadjective
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
Tenderadjective
(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
Tenderadjective
(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Tenderadjective
(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
Tendernoun
(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
Tendernoun
The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
Tendernoun
(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
Tendernoun
(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
Tendernoun
(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
Tendernoun
(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
Tendernoun
A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
Tendernoun
(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
Tendernoun
Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
Tenderverb
To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
Tenderverb
(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
Tenderverb
To work on a tender.
Tenderverb
(formal) To offer, to give.
Tenderverb
to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
Tendernoun
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tendernoun
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
Tendernoun
A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
Tendernoun
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.
Tendernoun
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.
Tendernoun
The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
Tendernoun
Regard; care; kind concern.
Tenderverb
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.
Tenderverb
To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
Tenderverb
To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Tenderadjective
Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
Tenderadjective
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tenderadjective
Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
Tenderadjective
Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
Tenderadjective
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Tenderadjective
Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.
Tenderadjective
Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
Tenderadjective
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
Tenderadjective
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
Tenderadjective
Heeling over too easily when under sail; - said of a vessel.
Tendernoun
something used as an official medium of payment
Tendernoun
someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Tendernoun
a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
Tendernoun
car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
Tendernoun
a boat for communication between ship and shore
Tendernoun
ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
Tenderverb
offer or present for acceptance
Tenderverb
propose a payment;
Tenderverb
make a tender of; in legal settlements
Tenderverb
make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;
Tenderadjective
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;
Tenderadjective
hurting;
Tenderadjective
susceptible to physical or emotional injury;
Tenderadjective
having or displaying warmth or affection;
Tenderadjective
easy to cut or chew;
Tenderadjective
physically untoughened;
Tenderadjective
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Tenderadjective
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;
Tenderadjective
showing gentleness, kindness, and affection
Tenderadjective
solicitous of
Tenderadjective
(of food) easy to cut or chew; not tough
Tenderadjective
(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain
Tenderadjective
(of a plant) easily injured by severe weather and therefore needing protection
Tenderadjective
requiring tact or careful handling
Tenderadjective
young, inexperienced, or vulnerable
Tenderadjective
(of a ship) leaning or readily inclined to roll in response to the wind.
Tenderverb
offer or present (something) formally
Tenderverb
offer (money) as payment
Tenderverb
make a formal written offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset for a stated fixed price
Tenderverb
formally offer (a stated fixed price) for carrying out work, supplying goods, etc.
Tenderverb
seek offers to carry out work at a stated fixed price
Tendernoun
an offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset at a stated fixed price
Tendernoun
a vehicle used by a fire service for carrying specified supplies or equipment or fulfilling a specified role
Tendernoun
a vehicle used in mobile operations by a public service or the armed forces
Tendernoun
a dinghy or other boat used to ferry people and supplies to and from a ship.
Tendernoun
a trailing vehicle closely coupled to a steam locomotive to carry fuel and water.
Tendernoun
a person who looks after someone else or a machine or place
Soreadjective
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Soreadjective
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Soreadjective
Dire; distressing.
Soreadjective
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
Soreadjective
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
Soreadverb
(archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
Soreadverb
Sorely.
Sorenoun
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Sorenoun
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
Sorenoun
A group of ducks on land.
Sorenoun
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
Sorenoun
A young buck in its fourth year.
Soreverb
(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
Soreadjective
Reddish brown; sorrel.
Soreadjective
Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; - said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
Soreadjective
Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Soreadjective
Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
Soreadjective
Criminal; wrong; evil.
Sorenoun
A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
Sorenoun
A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
Sorenoun
A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
Sorenoun
Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
Soreadverb
In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
Soreadverb
Greatly; violently; deeply.
Sorenoun
an open skin infection
Soreadjective
hurting;
Soreadjective
causing misery or pain or distress;
Soreadjective
roused to anger;
Soreadjective
inflamed and painful;
