The difference between Boat and Tender

When used as nouns, boat means 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, whereas tender means care, kind concern, regard.

When used as verbs, boat means to travel by boat, whereas tender means to make tender or delicate.

Tender is also adjective with the meaning: sensitive or painful to the touch.

check bellow for the other definitions of Boat and Tender

  1. Boat as a noun:

    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.

  2. Boat as a noun (poker slang):

    A full house.

  3. Boat as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "a stone boat;  a gravy boat'"

  4. Boat as a noun (chemistry):

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

  5. Boat as a noun (AU, politics, informal):

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

  1. Boat as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel by boat.

  2. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To transport in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat goods"

  3. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To place in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat oars"

  1. Tender as an adjective:

    Sensitive or painful to the touch.

  2. Tender as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "'tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"

  3. Tender as an adjective:

    Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

  4. Tender as an adjective (of food):

    Soft and easily chewed.

  5. Tender as an adjective:

    Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

  6. Tender as an adjective:

    Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

    Examples:

    "Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."

  7. Tender as an adjective:

    Young and inexperienced.

  8. Tender as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "'tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"

  9. Tender as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "a tender subject"

  10. Tender as an adjective (nautical):

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

  11. Tender as an adjective (obsolete):

    Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

  12. Tender as an adjective (obsolete):

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

  1. Tender as a noun (obsolete):

    Care, kind concern, regard.

  2. Tender as a noun:

    The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

  1. Tender as a verb (now, _, rare):

    To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

  2. Tender as a verb:

    To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.

  1. Tender as a noun (obsolete):

    Someone who tends or waits on someone.

  2. Tender as a noun (rail transport):

    A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

  3. Tender as a noun (nautical):

    A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

    Examples:

    "submarine tender'"

    "destroyer tender'"

  4. Tender as a noun (nautical):

    A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.

  1. Tender as a verb:

    To work on a tender.

  1. Tender as a noun:

    A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

    Examples:

    "Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash."

    "[[legal tender]]"

  2. Tender as a noun (legal):

    A formal offer to buy or sell something.

    Examples:

    "We will submit our tender to you within the week."

  3. Tender as a noun:

    Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

  1. Tender as a verb (formal):

    To offer, to give.

    Examples:

    "to tender one’s resignation"

  2. Tender as a verb:

    to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

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