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As nouns the difference between gender and tender

is that gender is (grammar) a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate while tender is (label) (l) (fuel-carrying railroad car).

As a verb gender

is (sociology) to assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives) that express a certain gender or gender can be (archaic) to engender.

gender

English

(wikipedia gender)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) gendre, genre, from (etyl) . The verb developed after the noun.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
  • * 1991 , Greville G. Corbett, Gender (ISBN 052133845X), page 65:
    • In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender
  • Biological sex: a division into which an organism is placed according to its reproductive functions or organs.
    • the trait is found in both genders
  • Biological sex: the sum of the biological characteristics by which male and female and other organisms are distinguished.
    • The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender , and other factors.
  • Identification as male/masculine, female/feminine
  • * 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (ISBN 0786750545), page 93:
    • One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident,
  • * 2010 , Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age (ISBN 113499950X):
    • Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate , that he was pregnant. Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.
  • * 2012 , Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories , page 5:
    • Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender , is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
  • The sociocultural phenomenon of the division of people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated clothing, roles, stereotypes, etc.
  • * 1993 , David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration , page 187:
    • The annals of colonial history offer relatively few such encounters between women, and it may be that gender has created here a marginal space in which something like an actual dialogue is possible between British and Sudanese.
  • * 2004 , Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones , page 28:
    • Gender' does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, . But these other differentiations are always also gendered, and in turn they help construct what is a man or a woman in any given circumstance. So while ' gender is binary, its components have varied expressions.
  • * 2005 , Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Key Concepts , page 131:
    • Even with some adamant processualists, however, gender has made inroads.
  • (obsolete) Class; kind.
  • * circa 1603, Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 3:
    • ...plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many...
    Usage notes
    Derived terms
    * agender * bigender * cisgender * gender binary * gender continuum * gender dysphoria * gendered * gender expression * genderfluid * genderfuck * gender identity * gender identity disorder; GID * genderism * genderland * gender presentation * genderqueer; GQ * gender role * gender spectrum * gender studies * gender-variant * third gender * transgender; TG
    See also
    * (grammar) feminine, masculine, neuter * (sex) female, male, hermaphroditic/hermaphrodite; man, woman, hermaphrodite * androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, two-spirit, transsexual

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
  • * 2011 , Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality , page 147:
    • In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
  • (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
  • * 1996 , Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament , page 191:
    • At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
  • * 2003 , Reading the Anonymous Female Voice'', in ''The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England , page 244:
    • Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
    Related terms
    * misgender * ungender, degender * regender

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gendren, genderen, from (etyl) gendrer, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To engender.
  • (archaic, or, obsolete) To breed.
  • * Leviticus 19:19 (KJV):
    • Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

    tender

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tendre, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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)
    • Be careful: that area is tender .
  • Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
  • Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56
    • the tender and delicate woman among you
  • (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
  • * 2001 , Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)
    • The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender , succulent, and juicy.
  • Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  • * L'Estrange
    • Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
  • Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
  • * Bible, James v. 11
    • The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, / Will never do him good.
  • * Fuller
    • I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
  • Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
  • Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Things that are tender and unpleasing.
  • (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
  • (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I love Valentine, / Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
  • (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of .
  • * Burke
    • tender of property
  • * Tillotson
    • The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * chicken tender * frost-tender * tenderise, tenderize * tenderly * tenderness * tender loving care, TLC * tenderfoot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:
    • 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 [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:
    • 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.
  • to feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
  • * 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet) , 3,1 (First Folio edition):
    • And ?o good Capulet , which name I tender
    As dearely as my owne, be ?atisfied.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) regard; care; kind concern
  • *
    • Thou makest some tender of my life / In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
  • The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * (smaller boat) dinghy
    Related terms
    * (one who tends) bartender

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (formal) To offer, to give.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You see how all conditions, how all minds, tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.
  • * 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
    • I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
  • to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
    • Synonyms
    * offer
    Derived terms
    * tenderable * to tender something out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 ,
    • [...] 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 tender

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