Dinghy vs. Tender

Dinghy vs. Tender — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Dinghy and Tender

Dinghynoun

(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.

Tenderadjective

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Dinghynoun

(nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.

Tenderadjective

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit

Dinghynoun

a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

Tenderadjective

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

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Tenderadjective

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Tenderadjective

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Tenderadjective

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.

Tenderadjective

Young and inexperienced.

Tenderadjective

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

Tenderadjective

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

a tender subject
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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.

submarine tenderdestroyer tender

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.

Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.legal tender

Tendernoun

(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

We will submit our tender to you within the week.

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.

to tender one’s resignation

Tenderverb

to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

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;

The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting

Tenderverb

make a tender of; in legal settlements

Tenderverb

make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;

tenderize meat

Tenderadjective

given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;

a tender hearta tender smiletender loving caretender memoriesa tender mother

Tenderadjective

hurting;

the tender spot on his jaw

Tenderadjective

susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

at a tender age

Tenderadjective

having or displaying warmth or affection;

affectionate childrencaring parentsa fond embracefond of his nephewa tender glancea warm embrace

Tenderadjective

easy to cut or chew;

tender beef

Tenderadjective

physically untoughened;

tender feet

Tenderadjective

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Tenderadjective

(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;

tender green shoots