Tender vs Keeper - What's the difference?
tender | keeper |
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 ,
One who keeps something.
(slang) A person or thing worth keeping.
* 2005 , , Volume 122, Issues 7-12,
* 2008 , Jennifer Zomar, A Candle for the Children ,
* 2008 , Sherri Erwin, Naughty Or Nice ,
A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
* Bible
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=4 (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
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A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
(American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
* Bible, Titus ii. 5
* 1971 , H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man
A fruit that keeps well.
* Downing
In lang=en terms the difference between tender and keeper
is that tender is a formal offer to buy or sell something while keeper is a person or thing worth keeping.As nouns the difference between tender and keeper
is that tender is regard; care; kind concern while keeper is one who keeps something.As an adjective tender
is sensitive or painful to the touch.As a verb tender
is to make tender or delicate; to weaken.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
* ----keeper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Finders keepers ; losers weepers.
- You can throw out all the blurry photos, but the one with her and her daughter is certainly a keeper .
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- When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper .
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- We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper .
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- "Fine," I agreed. “But, Josh, my sister and I can handle it. You sit, watch football with the guys.”
- “I would rather stick close to you. Besides, I love cleaning up.”
- “I knew he was a keeper ,” Gran said.
- And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper ?
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- discreet; chaste; keepers at home
- I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers -to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives
- The Roxbury Russet is a good keeper .
