'Condition' definitions:
Definition of 'condition'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition, status]
noun
An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation]
noun
A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"
noun
Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" [syn: circumstance, condition, consideration]
noun
The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') [syn: condition, shape]
noun
An illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"
noun
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" [syn: condition, term]
noun
The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition [syn: condition, experimental condition]
verb
Establish a conditioned response
verb
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition]
verb
Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify]
verb
Put into a better state; "he conditions old cars"
verb
Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it"
Definition of 'Condition'
From: GCIDE
- Condition \Con*di"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. conditio (better condicio) agreement, compact, condition; con- + a root signifying to show, point out, akin to dicere to say, dicare to proclaim, dedicate. See Teach, Token.]
- 1. Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. [1913 Webster]
- I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- The new conditions of life. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Essential quality; property; attribute. [1913 Webster]
- It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified. [1913 Webster]
- I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend. --Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation.
- On condition or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him." --Shak.
- Conditions of sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.
- Syn: State; situation; circumstances; station; case; mode; plight; predicament; stipulation; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See State. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Condition'
From: GCIDE
- Condition \Con*di"tion\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conditioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Conditioning.]
- 1. To make terms; to stipulate. [1913 Webster]
- Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. [1913 Webster]
- To think of a thing is to condition. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Condition'
From: GCIDE
- Condition \Con*di"tion\, v. t. [Cf. LL. conditionare. See Condition, n.]
- 1. To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. [1913 Webster]
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To contract; to stipulate; to agree. [1913 Webster]
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (U. S. Colleges) 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; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). --McElrath. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'condition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- ability,
- abnormality,
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- accustom,
- acute disease,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- affairs,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- alter,
- apprentice,
- assuage,
- atrophy,
- attach a condition,
- attune,
- bacterial disease,
- bearings,
- beat into,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- bound,
- boundary condition,
- box in,
- brainwash,
- break,
- break in,
- breed,
- bring up,
- capability,
- capacitate,
- capacity,
- cardiovascular disease,
- case,
- case harden,
- caste,
- catch,
- catechize,
- character,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- circumscribe,
- circumstance,
- circumstances,
- class,
- clause,
- cobble,
- commission,
- competence,
- competency,
- complaint,
- complication,
- concerns,
- condition of things,
- conditions,
- confine,
- confirm,
- congenital defect,
- conjuncture,
- contain,
- contingency,
- copyright,
- cultivate,
- darn,
- dealings,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- demand,
- develop,
- diminish,
- disability,
- discipline,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- do up,
- doctor,
- doings,
- domesticate,
- domesticize,
- donnee,
- draw the line,
- drill,
- echelon,
- educate,
- enable,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- environment,
- epidemic disease,
- equip,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- establish,
- estate,
- event,
- eventuality,
- exception,
- exemption,
- exercise,
- familiarize,
- fetch up,
- fettle,
- fine print,
- fit,
- fit out,
- fit up,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- fix,
- fix up,
- footing,
- form,
- foster,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- furnish,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- gentle,
- get ready,
- given,
- goings-on,
- groom,
- grounds,
- habituate,
- handicap,
- harden,
- have a catch,
- have a joker,
- health,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- hereditary disease,
- hierarchy,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- illness,
- imbue,
- implant,
- impregnate,
- impress,
- improve,
- incident,
- inculcate,
- indisposition,
- indoctrinate,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- infix,
- influence,
- infuse,
- inoculate,
- insist upon,
- instill,
- inure,
- jam,
- joker,
- juncture,
- kicker,
- kilter,
- leaven,
- life,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting condition,
- location,
- lot,
- make conditional,
- make contingent,
- make ready,
- malady,
- malaise,
- march of events,
- mastery,
- matters,
- maturity,
- mend,
- mitigate,
- modality,
- mode,
- moderate,
- modification,
- modify,
- modulate,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- mould,
- muscular disease,
- must,
- narrow,
- naturalize,
- necessity,
- neurological disease,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- nutritional disease,
- obligation,
- occasion,
- occupational disease,
- occurrence,
- order,
- organic disease,
- orient,
- orientate,
- outfit,
- overhaul,
- palliate,
- pandemic disease,
- parameter,
- part,
- pass,
- patch,
- patch up,
- patent,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- persuade,
- pickle,
- place,
- plant disease,
- plight,
- position,
- posture,
- power structure,
- practice,
- precedence,
- predicament,
- prepare,
- preparedness,
- prerequisite,
- proceedings,
- proficiency,
- program,
- protozoan disease,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- psychosomatic disease,
- put in commission,
- put in order,
- put in repair,
- put in shape,
- put in trim,
- put in tune,
- put to school,
- qualification,
- qualify,
- quality,
- quarters,
- raise,
- rank,
- rate,
- rating,
- readiness,
- ready,
- rear,
- recap,
- recondition,
- reduce,
- register,
- regulate by,
- rehearse,
- relation,
- relations,
- repair,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- reservation,
- respiratory disease,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restriction,
- retread,
- ripeness,
- rockiness,
- role,
- run of things,
- saving clause,
- scant,
- season,
- seasoning,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- send to school,
- service,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- set to rights,
- sew up,
- shape,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- sine qua non,
- situation,
- small print,
- soften,
- specialize,
- specification,
- sphere,
- spot,
- stage,
- standing,
- state,
- state of affairs,
- station,
- status,
- stint,
- stipulate,
- stipulation,
- straiten,
- string,
- strings,
- suit,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- suitedness,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- take in hand,
- tame,
- teach,
- temper,
- tempering,
- term,
- terms,
- the pip,
- the times,
- the world,
- tinker,
- tinker up,
- train,
- trim,
- tune,
- ultimatum,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- what happens,
- whereas,
- wont,
- worm disease
Words containing 'Condition'
- Condite,
- Conditional,
- Conditionality,
- Conditionally,
- Conditioned,
- Conditioning,
- Conditionly,
- On condition,
- conditions,
- in condition,
- Condition precedent,
- Conditions of sale,
- Equation of condition,
- Equations of condition,
- In hard condition,
- Upon condition,
- air condition,
- air conditioning,
- atmospheric condition,
- aversive conditioning,
- boundary condition,
- classical conditioning,
- conditional contract,
- conditional probability,
- conditional reaction,
- conditional reflex,
- conditional relation,
- conditional response,
- conditional sale,
- conditioned avoidance,
- conditioned emotion,
- conditioned reaction,
- conditioned reflex,
- conditioned response,
- conditioned stimulus,
- control condition,
- counter conditioning,
- economic condition,
- environmental condition,
- essential condition,
- experimental condition,
- eye condition,
- financial condition,
- hereditary condition,
- instrumental conditioning,
- mental condition,
- meteorological conditions,
- mint condition,
- noise conditions,
- operant conditioning,
- physical condition,
- physiological condition,
- psychological condition,
- sanitary condition,
- ski conditions,
- toxic condition,
- weather condition,
- air-condition,
- air-conditioned,
- conditioned avoidance response,
- conditioned emotional response