condition

A state or quality.countableuncountable

• 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.countableuncountable

• 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.countableobsoleteuncountable

• A man of his condition has no place to make requests.

A state or quality.; The health status of a medical patient.countableuncountable

• My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.

A state or quality.; The health status of a medical patient.countableuncountable

• While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trial

A requirement or prerequisite.countableuncountable

• 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.countableuncountable

A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.countableuncountable

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.transitive

• After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out […] She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits […]

To place conditions or limitations upon.transitive

• Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.

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.transitive

• Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminat

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.transitive

• [P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).transitive

• divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed

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.UStransitive

• 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.

• "To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.