Boat vs. Tender — What's the Difference?

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats. Small boats are typically found on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes, or in protected coastal areas.

Showing gentleness, kindness, and affection

A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.

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

An inland vessel of any size.

(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain

A ship or submarine.

Young, inexperienced, or vulnerable

A dish shaped like a boat

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

To travel by boat.

Offer or present (something) formally

To ride a boat for pleasure.

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

To transport by boat.

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

To place in a boat.

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

A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

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

(poker slang) A full house.

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

A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

Easily crushed or bruised; fragile

(chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

Easily chewed or cut

The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

Young and vulnerable

(intransitive) To travel by boat.

Frail; delicate.

(transitive) To transport in a boat.

Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy

(transitive) To place in a boat.

Easily hurt; sensitive

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Painful; sore

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

Considerate and protective; solicitous

A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft

To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

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

To go or row in a boat.

To make tender.

A small vessel for travel on water

To offer formally

A dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce

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

Ride in a boat on water

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

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

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

Something, especially money, offered in payment.

One who tends something

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

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

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

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

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

Young and inexperienced.

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

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

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

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

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

(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

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;