Dinghy vs. Tender
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 fruitDinghynoun
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.
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 strainTenderadjective
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
a tender subjectTenderadjective
(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 tenderTendernoun
(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 tenderTendernoun
(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 resignationTenderverb
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 paintingTenderverb
make a tender of; in legal settlements
Tenderverb
make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;
tenderize meatTenderadjective
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;
a tender hearta tender smiletender loving caretender memoriesa tender motherTenderadjective
hurting;
the tender spot on his jawTenderadjective
susceptible to physical or emotional injury;
at a tender ageTenderadjective
having or displaying warmth or affection;
affectionate childrencaring parentsa fond embracefond of his nephewa tender glancea warm embraceTenderadjective
easy to cut or chew;
tender beefTenderadjective
physically untoughened;
tender feetTenderadjective
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Tenderadjective
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;
tender green shoots
