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- English Word Tench Definition A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.
- English Word Tend Definition To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- English Word Tend Definition To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
- English Word Tend Definition To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
- English Word Tend Definition To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
- English Word Tend Definition To await; to expect.
- English Word Tend Definition To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
- English Word Tend Definition To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
- English Word Tendance Definition The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
- English Word Tendance Definition Persons in attendance; attendants.
- English Word Tended Definition of Tend
- English Word Tendence Definition Tendency.
- English Word Tendencies Definition of Tendency
- English Word Tendency Definition Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
- English Word Tender Definition One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
- English Word Tender Definition A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
- English Word Tender Definition A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
- English Word Tender Definition To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
- English Word Tender Definition To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
- English Word Tender Definition An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
- English Word Tender Definition Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
- English Word Tender Definition The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
- English Word Tender Definition Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
- English Word Tender Definition Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- English Word Tender Definition Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
- English Word Tender Definition Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
- English Word Tender Definition Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- English Word Tender Definition Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
- English Word Tender Definition Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
- English Word Tender Definition Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.