Tender

Definition

tender 1 /'tendǝ(r)/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ၾကင္နာသနားတတ္ေသာ။ have a tender heart. ၂။ ၾကင္နာေသာ။ ယုယေသာ။ give sb tender looks ❍ bid sb a tender farewell ❍ She needs a lot of tender loving care ❍ (ironic) I was left to the tender mercies of the guards. ၃။ ႏူးေသာ။ tender meat ❍ Boil the beans until they are tender. ၄။ ႏုေသာ။ tender young plants (eg ones that can be harmed by frost). ၅။ နာက်င္ ေသာ။ အထိမခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ My leg is still very tender where it was bruised. ၆။ ငယ္ႏုေသးေသာ (အရြယ္)။ leave home at the tender age of 15 ❍ a child of tender years. ❏ tender-hearted adj ၾကင္နာတတ္ေသာ။ သနားတတ္ေသာ။ ❏ tenderize, -ise /'tendǝraÇz/ v ႏွပ္သည္။ ေတသည္။ ႏူးသည္။ tenderized steak. ❏ tenderly adv ယုယုယယ။ ၾကင္ၾကင္နာနာ။ ညင္ညင္သာသာ။ ❏ tenderness n [U] ၾကင္နာမႈ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ျခင္း။ tender 2 /'tendǝ(r)/ v ၁။ ~ (for sth) ေဈးၿပိဳင္ကမ္းလွမ္းသည္။ တင္ဒါ သြင္းသည္။ competitive tendering ❍ Firms were invited to tender for the construction of the new motorway. ၂။ ~ sth (to sb) ( fml ) တင္သည္။ He has tendered his resignation (to the Prime Minister). (also esp US bid ) n ကုန္ပစၥည္းေပးသြင္းရန္၊ လုပ္ငန္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရန္ ေဈးႏႈန္းကမ္း လွမ္းျခင္း။ တင္ဒါသြင္းျခင္း။ put work out to tender (ie ask for such offers) ❍ put in/make/submit a tender for sth ❍ accept the lowest tender. See also LEGAL TENDER tender 3 /'tendǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (esp in compounds) ၾကည့္႐ႈေစာင့္ေရွာက္သူ။ tenders of gardens. ၂။ ေရသယ္၊ ဆီသယ္ေသာ ထရပ္ကား။

Examples

1. Cook for an hour or until the meat is tender.
2. Her voice was low and tender.