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The word that means both fragile and fierce, and also coal for a steam train.
means Soft, gentle, or easily damaged; or to formally offer something (like payment or a bid); or a vehicle or vessel that serves a larger one, including the coal car of a steam train.
from Two separate words wearing the same coat. The 'gentle/soft' tender comes from Old French 'tendre' and ultimately Latin 'tener,' meaning delicate or young — a cousin of 'tendril' and the Italian 'tenero.' The 'offer' tender comes from a different Latin root, 'tendere,' to stretch or hold out (think of extending your hand with payment), which also gives us 'tend' and 'attend.' The railway and nautical 'tender' is simply something that tends — that attends to and serves — the bigger thing beside it.
- legal tender
- Currency a creditor can't legally refuse
- train tender
- The car hauling coal behind a locomotive
- latin root
- From tenerus, meaning soft or delicate
- verb form
- To tender is to formally offer something
- bartending nod
- A bartender literally tends the bar
broadcom tender offer qualcomm — semiconductor company's unsolicited $121 billion bid for qualcomm in 2018