Tame vs Tender - What's the difference?
tame | tender |
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
(chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
Not exciting
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
* Roscommon
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
to make something
to become
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
* Fuller
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
*
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 ,
As nouns the difference between tame and tender
is that tame is water-source while tender is (label) (l) (fuel-carrying railroad car).tame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- They have a tame wildcat.
- The lion was quite tame .
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame .
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
Quotations
* (English Citations of "tame")Synonyms
* (not exciting) dull, insipidAntonyms
* (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wildDerived terms
* tamely * tamenessVerb
- He tamed the wild horse.
Derived terms
* tamerExternal links
* ("tame" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(tam)- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Anagrams
* * * * English ergative verbs ----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.