condition.
A state or quality.
Meaning & usage
A state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
A state or quality. A particular state of being.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
A state or quality. The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
A state or quality. The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
A state or quality. The health status of a medical patient. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
A requirement or prerequisite.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
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