Tender vs Produce - What's the difference?
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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 ,
To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
* Macaulay
* 1856 , , Volume 3,
* 1999 , Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification , Volume 3, CSIRO Publishing,
* 2000 , Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand'', Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension ,
* 2006 , Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006 ,
* 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2008 , Primary Australian History: Book F , R.I.C. Publications,
* 2010', Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, ''Measuring Dimuons '''Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS'', Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, Bikash Sinha (editors) , ''The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785,
To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
* 1810 , Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings: volume 8
* 2006 , Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation ,
* 2007 , Transit Cooperative Research Program TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers ,
(media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
* 1982 January 30, Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets'', '' ,
* 2001 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films ,
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 ,
(mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
(obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
Items produced.
Amount produced.
Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
* 1852 , F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields ,
* 1861 , William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition ,
* 1999 , Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990 ,
* 2008 , Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices ,
Offspring.
(Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
As nouns the difference between tender and produce
is that tender is (label) (l) (fuel-carrying railroad car) while produce is items produced.As a verb produce is
to yield, make or manufacture; to generate.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
* ----produce
English
Verb
(produc)- the greatest jurist his country had produced
page 510,
- At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
page 72,
- Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
page 567,
- For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country?s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
page 29,
- The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
page 3805,
- We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
page 43,
- He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
page 280,
- Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
- It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
page 262,
- LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an antiMormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
page 22,
- The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
page M-16,
- David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.
page 56,
- In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings , an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
page 570,
- This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
- to produce a side of a triangle
- to produce a man's life to threescore
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Noun
(-)page 151,
- All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
page 54,
- Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
page 291,
- While it is true that New Zealand?s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
page 230,
- A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
Usage notes
Frequently used in the collocation , since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”.Why do you call it “the produce aisle”?
