tender vs trolley

tender

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

  • Any offer or proposal made for acceptance. 

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

  • A formal offer to buy or sell something. 

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

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

  • Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply. 

  • The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry. 

verb
  • to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions. 

  • To offer, to give. 

  • To work on a tender. 

adv
  • tenderly 

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

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

  • Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. 

  • Soft and easily chewed. 

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

  • Physically weak; not able to endure hardship. 

  • Sensitive or painful to the touch. 

  • Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet. 

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

  • Young and inexperienced. 

trolley

noun
  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 

  • A streetcar or light train. 

  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 

  • A soapbox car. 

  • A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. 

  • A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. 

  • A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. 

  • A handcar. 

  • A hand truck. 

  • A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. 

verb
  • To bring to by trolley. 

  • To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train). 

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another. 

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