Quotation vs. Tender — What's the Difference?

A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e.

Showing gentleness, kindness, and affection

The act of quoting.

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

A passage quoted.

(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain

An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work

Young, inexperienced, or vulnerable

The quoting of current prices and bids for securities and goods.

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

The prices or bids cited.

Offer or present (something) formally

A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.

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

A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

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

The act of setting a price.

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

(obsolete) A quota, a share.

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

The act of quoting or citing.

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

That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.

Easily crushed or bruised; fragile

The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also, the price named.

Easily chewed or cut

Quota; share.

Young and vulnerable

A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.

Frail; delicate.

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;

Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Easily hurt; sensitive

A statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

Painful; sore

The practice of quoting from books or plays etc.;

Considerate and protective; solicitous

Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving

Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft

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

To make tender.

To offer formally

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

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;