Tender vs Collective - What's the difference?
tender | collective |
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
* 1597 , , All's Well that Ends Well , 3,2:
* 2006 , Mike Myers (as the voice of the title character), Shrek (movie)
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56
(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
* 2001 , Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
* L'Estrange
Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
* Bible, James v. 11
* Shakespeare
* Fuller
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
* Francis Bacon
(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of .
* Burke
* Tillotson
To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:
* Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:
to feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet) , 3,1 (First Folio edition):
(obsolete) regard; care; kind concern
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The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
(formal) To offer, to give.
* Shakespeare
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
* 1599 ,
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
(obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly'', ''army'', ''jury , etc.
Tending to collect; forming a collection.
* Young
Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
A farm owned by a collection of people.
(especially, in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
(grammar) A collective noun or name.
(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
* 2005 , Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985 (page 76)
As nouns the difference between tender and collective
is that tender is (label) (l) (fuel-carrying railroad car) while collective is a farm owned by a collection of people.As an adjective collective is
formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.tender
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tendre, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- Be careful: that area is tender .
- the tender and delicate woman among you
- The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender , succulent, and juicy.
- Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
- The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
- You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, / Will never do him good.
- I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
- Things that are tender and unpleasing.
- I love Valentine, / Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
- tender of property
- The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* chicken tender * frost-tender * tenderise, tenderize * tenderly * tenderness * tender loving care, TLC * tenderfootVerb
(en verb)- To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].
- Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.
- And ?o good Capulet , which name I tender
As dearely as my owne, be ?atisfied.
Noun
- Thou makest some tender of my life / In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (smaller boat) dinghyEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- You see how all conditions, how all minds, tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.
- I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Synonyms
* offerDerived terms
* tenderable * to tender something outNoun
(en noun)- [...] if she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the man,—as you know all,—hath a contemptible spirit.
See also
* legal tender * to put out to tender * to put out for tenderAnagrams
* ----collective
English
Adjective
(-)- critical and collective reason
- Local is his throne to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.
Derived terms
* collectiveness * collectivelyNoun
(en noun)- There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.