The difference between Nesh and Tender

When used as verbs, nesh means to make soft, tender, or weak, whereas tender means to make tender or delicate.

When used as adjectives, nesh means soft, whereas tender means sensitive or painful to the touch.

Tender is also noun with the meaning: care, kind concern, regard.

check bellow for the other definitions of Nesh and Tender

Nesh as an adjective (now, _, UK, _, dialectal):

Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
Nesh as an adjective (now, _, UK, _, dialectal):

Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
Nesh as an adjective (now, _, UK, _, dialectal):

Soft; friable; crumbly.

Nesh as a verb (transitive):

To make soft, tender, or weak.
Nesh as a verb (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England):

To act timidly.

Tender as an adjective:

Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Tender as an adjective:

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

Examples:

"'tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"
Tender as an adjective:

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
Tender as an adjective (of food):

Soft and easily chewed.
Tender as an adjective:

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tender as an adjective:

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

Examples:

"Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."
Tender as an adjective:

Young and inexperienced.
Tender as an adjective:

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

Examples:

"'tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"
Tender as an adjective:

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

Examples:

"a tender subject"
Tender as an adjective (nautical):

Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
Tender as an adjective (obsolete):

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Tender as an adjective (obsolete):

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

Tender as a noun (obsolete):

Care, kind concern, regard.
Tender as a noun:

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

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

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
Tender as a verb:

To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.

Tender as a noun (obsolete):

Someone who tends or waits on someone.
Tender as a noun (rail transport):

A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
Tender as a noun (nautical):

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

Examples:

"submarine tender'"

"destroyer tender'"
Tender as a noun (nautical):

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

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]]"
Tender as a noun (legal):

A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Examples:

"We will submit our tender to you within the week."
Tender as a noun:

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Tender as a verb (formal):

To offer, to give.

Examples:

"to tender one’s resignation"
Tender as a verb:

to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.