tender vs well

tender

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

  • Any offer or proposal made for acceptance. 

  • A formal offer to buy or sell something. 

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

  • 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. 

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. 

adv
  • tenderly 

well

noun
  • The cockpit of a sailboat. 

  • A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market. 

  • A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. 

  • A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. 

  • A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 

  • A source of supply. 

  • The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. 

  • An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. 

  • In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. 

  • A well drink. 

  • A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. 

  • A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. 

  • The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. 

  • The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. 

  • A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. 

adv
  • To a significant degree. 

  • In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. 

  • Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. 

  • Completely, fully. 

  • Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). 

adj
  • Prudent; good; well-advised. 

  • In good health. 

  • Good, content. 

intj
  • An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation). 

  • Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. 

  • An exclamation of indignance. 

  • Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. 

  • Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause. 

  • Used as a greeting 

  • Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer. 

verb
  • To have something seep out of the surface. 

  • To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. 

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