What's the difference between slender and tender?

Slender


Definition:

  • (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
  • (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
  • (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
  • (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
  • (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (2) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.
  • (3) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (4) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (5) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
  • (6) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
  • (7) Histologically, they contained slender spindle cells and various amounts of collagen fibers.
  • (8) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (9) Public schools report dipping into their own slender budgets, and sometimes principal’s own pockets to pay family electricity bills so that students can keep access to their computer and also get the occasional warm meal.
  • (10) They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250.
  • (11) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (12) Normally, PC12 cells respond to NGF by morphologically differentiating into sympathetic neuron-like cells, exhibiting a marked hypertrophy, and extending slender neurites piloted by well defined growth cones.
  • (13) When explants of neurofibroma tissue were cultured, macrophage-like cells with pseudopodia migrated out first, and later took on a slender fusiform shape.
  • (14) Bone-age was advanced and bones were slender and osteoporotic with metaphyseal thickening.
  • (15) The surface cells had well developed apical junctions and slender cytoplasmic processes projecting into widened intercellular spaces appeared during the developmental period.
  • (16) At the level of the Z-line, a slender transverse tubule (T-tubule) runs transversely to the longitudinal axis of the myofibril.
  • (17) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (18) These consisted of parallel configurations of slender sheet-like astrocytic processes frequently connected to one another by highly organized intercellular adhesive devices.
  • (19) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
  • (20) These events were followed by a transformation of the long slender bloodstream form to a short stumpy form via an intermediate morphology.

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.