(v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
(v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
(v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
(v. i.) To assent; to consent.
(v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
(v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
(v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
(v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(4) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(5) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(6) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(8) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(9) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(11) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(12) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
(13) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
(14) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
(15) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
(16) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(17) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
(18) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
(19) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
(20) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.
Tender
Definition:
(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
(n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
(v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
(n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
(n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
(superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(3) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(4) These data suggest that d 7 MFI could be used as a single predictor of d 14 longissimus muscle tenderness; however, CDP inhibitor d 1 activity (a biological event) also may be useful in predicting tenderness.
(5) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(6) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
(7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(8) Seventy-nine percent of all subjects were skin-test positive to inhalant allergens, but positive skin tests alone did not correlate with the number of tender points or criteria for fibromyalgia.
(9) Permanent relief of tenderness in the needled structure was obtained for 92 structures; relief for several months in 58; for several weeks in 63; and for several days in 32 out of 288 pain sites followed up.
(10) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(11) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(12) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(13) Pericranial muscle tenderness and elevated EMG activity may index different aspects of abnormal muscle function.
(14) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
(15) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
(16) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(17) In the sensitized state, nociceptors can be activated by low-intensity stimulation; this is probably one of the mechanisms producing deep tenderness.
(18) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(19) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
(20) Among 23 patients with daily headache a correlation was found between headache intensity and Total Tenderness Score.