tender

I used the word tender in my blog yesterday and so have been thinking of the word since.
I think it's one of the loveliest ways to be - I appreciate it when people are tender with me, I like it when I manage it with others, and feel cross with myself (rather than tender, interesting) when i don't manage it with others.
And yet it has a range of other uses. We use it to describe how we physically feel when bruised. It can be used to describe meat (bleurgh). And most unrelatedly of all, it can refer to a bid for a piece of work and be successful or not.
Interesting.

* I found out today, from Pointless, that such a word (with multiple meanings ) is called polysemous