Tender vs. Sensitive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tender and Sensitive
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Tender
Showing gentleness, kindness, and affection
She covered his face with tender kisses
He was being so kind and tender
Sensitive
Quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences
Spiders are sensitive to vibrations on their web
The new method of protein detection was more sensitive than earlier ones
Tender
(of food) easy to cut or chew; not tough
Tender green beans
Sensitive
Having or displaying a quick and delicate appreciation of others' feelings
I pay tribute to the Minister for his sensitive handling of the bill
Tender
(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain
The pale, tender skin of her forearm
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Sensitive
Kept secret or with restrictions on disclosure to avoid endangering security
He was suspected of passing sensitive information to other countries
Tender
Young, inexperienced, or vulnerable
He started sailing at the tender age of ten
Sensitive
A person who is believed to respond to paranormal influences.
Tender
(of a ship) leaning or readily inclined to roll in response to the wind.
Sensitive
Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses
Aristotle held that animals have a sensitive soul, but only humans have a rational one.
Tender
Offer or present (something) formally
He tendered his resignation as leader
Sensitive
Responsive or capable of responding to a chemical stimulus or substance. Used especially of a cell, tissue, or organism.
Tender
An offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset at a stated fixed price
Being government land, it was sold by tender
We invited tenders for up to three more frigates
A minimum tender price
Sensitive
Susceptible to slight differences or changes in the environment
A plant that is sensitive to rapid changes in temperature.
Heat-sensitive enzymes.
Tender
A vehicle used by a fire service for carrying specified supplies or equipment or fulfilling a specified role
Three fire engines, including an emergency tender, attended the scene
Sensitive
Readily altered by the action of an agent
Film that is sensitive to light.
Tender
A dinghy or other boat used to ferry people and supplies to and from a ship.
Sensitive
Registering slight differences or changes of condition. Used of an instrument.
Tender
A trailing vehicle closely coupled to a steam locomotive to carry fuel and water.
Sensitive
Easily irritated
Sensitive skin.
Tender
A person who looks after someone else or a machine or place
Alexei signalled to one of the engine tenders
Sensitive
Predisposed to inflammation as a result of preexisting allergy or disease
People with celiac disease are sensitive to gluten.
Tender
Easily crushed or bruised; fragile
A tender petal.
Sensitive
Aware of or careful about the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
The book is a sensitive treatment of a troubled friendship.
Tender
Easily chewed or cut
Tender beef.
Sensitive
Easily hurt, upset, or offended
Teenagers tend to be especially sensitive about their appearance.
Tender
Young and vulnerable
Of tender age.
Sensitive
Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price
Sensitive stocks.
Tender
Frail; delicate.
Sensitive
Of or relating to secret or classified information
Sensitive defense data.
Holds a sensitive position in the State Department.
Tender
Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy
Tender green shoots.
Sensitive
A sensitive person.
Tender
Easily hurt; sensitive
Tender skin.
Sensitive
One held to be endowed with psychic or occult powers.
Tender
Painful; sore
A tender tooth.
Sensitive
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
Tender
Considerate and protective; solicitous
A tender mother.
His tender concern.
Sensitive
To stimuli.
Tender
Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving
A tender glance.
A tender ballad.
Sensitive
(of a person) Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
Tender
Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft
A tender heart.
Sensitive
(of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.
Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
Tender
(Nautical) Likely to heel easily under sail; crank.
Sensitive
Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
These are highly sensitive documents.
Tender
To make tender.
Sensitive
, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.
Tender
To offer formally
Tender a letter of resignation.
Sensitive
(of an instrument) accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
Tender
(Law) To offer (payment or performance) pursuant to an obligation.
Sensitive
(archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
Tender
A strip of meat, usually chicken, often breaded, deep-fried, and served with a sauce.
Sensitive
A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
Tender
(Law) An offer to pay the amount due under a debt or obligation.
Sensitive
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
Tender
A written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.
Sensitive
Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
Tender
Something, especially money, offered in payment.
Sensitive
Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
Tender
One who tends something
A lathe tender.
Sensitive
Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
Tender
(Nautical) A vessel attendant on other vessels, especially one that ferries supplies between ship and shore.
Sensitive
Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
Tender
A railroad car attached to the rear of a locomotive and designed to carry fuel and water.
Sensitive
Responsive to physical stimuli;
A mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch
A sensitive voltmeter
Sensitive skin
Sensitive to light
Tender
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Sensitive
Having acute mental or emotional sensibility;
Sensitive to the local community and its needs
Tender
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
Tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
Sensitive
Able to feel or perceive;
Even amoeba are sensible creatures
The more sensible p{ enveloping(a), shrouding(a), concealing,& (concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that is not solid;
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Tender
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
Sensitive
Hurting;
The tender spot on his jaw
Tender
(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
Sensitive
Used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security
Tender
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tender
Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
Tender
Young and inexperienced.
Tender
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
Tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
Tender
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
A tender subject
Tender
(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
Tender
(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Tender
(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
Tender
(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
Tender
The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
Tender
(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
Tender
(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
Tender
(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
Submarine tender
Destroyer tender
Tender
(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
Tender
Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
You offer me the sword of my father, the very man whose bones, because of your perfidy, lie under the sod of Crecy. Aye, I'll surely take it, and just as surely you shall die with your tender through your heart!
Tender
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
Tender
(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
We will submit our tender to you within the week.
Tender
Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
Tender
Tenderly
Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
Never let me go
Tender
To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
Tender
(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
Tender
To work on a tender.
Tender
(formal) To offer, to give.
To tender one’s resignation
Tender
To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
Tender
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tender
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
Tender
A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
Tender
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.
Tender
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.
A free, unlimited tender of the gospel.
Tender
The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
Tender
Regard; care; kind concern.
Tender
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.
Tender
To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender downTheir services to Lord Timon.
Tender
To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
For first, next after life, he tendered her good.
Tender yourself more dearly.
To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own.
Tender
Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
Tender
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
Tender
Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you.
Tender
Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
Tender
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
I love Valentine,Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
Tender
Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.
The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.
Tender
Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,Will never do him good.
Tender
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
Tender
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
Tender
Heeling over too easily when under sail; - said of a vessel.
Tender
Something used as an official medium of payment
Tender
Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Tender
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price
Tender
Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
Tender
A boat for communication between ship and shore
Tender
Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
Tender
Offer or present for acceptance
Tender
Propose a payment;
The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting
Tender
Make a tender of; in legal settlements
Tender
Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;
Tenderize meat
Tender
Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;
A tender heart
A tender smile
Tender loving care
Tender memories
A tender mother
Tender
Hurting;
The tender spot on his jaw
Tender
Susceptible to physical or emotional injury;
At a tender age
Tender
Having or displaying warmth or affection;
Affectionate children
Caring parents
A fond embrace
Fond of his nephew
A tender glance
A warm embrace
Tender
Easy to cut or chew;
Tender beef
Tender
Physically untoughened;
Tender feet
Tender
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Tender
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;
Tender green shoots
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