Kind vs. Tender — What's the Difference?

A group of people or things having similar characteristics

Showing gentleness, kindness, and affection

Each of the elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist

(of food) easy to cut or chew; not tough

Having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature

(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain

Having or showing a friendly, generous, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature.

Young, inexperienced, or vulnerable

Agreeable or beneficial

(of a ship) leaning or readily inclined to roll in response to the wind.

A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort

Offer or present (something) formally

A doubtful or borderline member of a given category

An offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset at a stated fixed price

Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.

A vehicle used by a fire service for carrying specified supplies or equipment or fulfilling a specified role

The natural order or course of things; nature.

A dinghy or other boat used to ferry people and supplies to and from a ship.

Manner or fashion.

A trailing vehicle closely coupled to a steam locomotive to carry fuel and water.

Lineal ancestry or descent.

A person who looks after someone else or a machine or place

Lineal ancestors or descendants considered as a group.

Easily crushed or bruised; fragile

A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

Easily chewed or cut

A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

Young and vulnerable

(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

Frail; delicate.

(archaic) Family, lineage.

Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy

(archaic) Manner.

Easily hurt; sensitive

Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

Painful; sore

Equivalent means used as response to an action.

Considerate and protective; solicitous

(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving

Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.

Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft

Affectionate.

(Nautical) Likely to heel easily under sail; crank.

Favorable.

To make tender.

Mild, gentle, forgiving

To offer formally

Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

(Law) To offer (payment or performance) pursuant to an obligation.

(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

A strip of meat, usually chicken, often breaded, deep-fried, and served with a sauce.

Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

(Law) An offer to pay the amount due under a debt or obligation.

Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.

A written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.

Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.

Something, especially money, offered in payment.

Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.

One who tends something

Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.

(Nautical) A vessel attendant on other vessels, especially one that ferries supplies between ship and shore.

Nature; natural instinct or disposition.

A railroad car attached to the rear of a locomotive and designed to carry fuel and water.

Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

To beget.

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior;

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Liberal;

Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

Conducive to comfort; beneficial;

Young and inexperienced.

Expressing sympathy

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Characterized by mercy, and compassion;

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

Agreeable;

(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

Helpful to other people;

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Tolerant and forgiving under provocation;

(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

Showing consideration and anticipation of needs;

(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

Generously responsive;

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.

Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.

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.

Tenderly

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

To work on a tender.

(formal) To offer, to give.

To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

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.

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.

The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

Regard; care; kind concern.

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.

To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.

Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

Heeling over too easily when under sail; - said of a vessel.

Something used as an official medium of payment

Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

A formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

A boat for communication between ship and shore

Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

Offer or present for acceptance

Propose a payment;

Make a tender of; in legal settlements

Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;

Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;

Hurting;

Susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

Having or displaying warmth or affection;

Easy to cut or chew;

Physically untoughened;

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;