Passion vs. Tender — What's the Difference?

Strong and barely controllable emotion

Showing gentleness, kindness, and affection

The suffering and death of Jesus

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

Strong or powerful emotion

(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain

A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy

Young, inexperienced, or vulnerable

A state of strong sexual desire or love

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

The object of such desire or love

Offer or present (something) formally

Boundless enthusiasm

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

The object of such enthusiasm

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

An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger

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

The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.

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

A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.

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

Martyrdom

Easily crushed or bruised; fragile

A true desire sustained or prolonged.

Easily chewed or cut

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

Young and vulnerable

Fervor, determination.

Frail; delicate.

An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy

Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

Easily hurt; sensitive

The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

Painful; sore

A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

Considerate and protective; solicitous

(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving

(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft

(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

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

(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

To make tender.

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

To offer formally

(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

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

(transitive) To give a passionate character to.

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

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.

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

The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.

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

Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

Something, especially money, offered in payment.

The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.

One who tends something

Disorder of the mind; madness.

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

Passion week. See Passion week, below.

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

To give a passionate character to.

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

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

Strong feeling or emotion

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

Intense passion or emotion

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Something that is desired intensely;

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

A feeling of strong sexual desire

Young and inexperienced.

Any object of warm affection or devotion;

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

The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

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;