Meanings (ES + gloss)
dolorido • tierno
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Be careful: that area is tender.
tierno
Soft and easily chewed.
The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.
cariñoso • tierno
Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good.
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ténder • vagón nodriza
A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.
Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and ten…
esquife
A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the…
The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
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medio de pago
A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.
legal tender
licitación • oferta • propuesta
A formal offer to buy or sell something.
We will submit our tender to you within the week.
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ofrecer
To offer, to give.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, […] tender down Their services to Lord Timon.
to tender one’s resignation
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