 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
condition
noun
1: a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of
disrepair"; "the current status of the arms
negotiations" [syn: {status}]
2: a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing;
"the human condition"
3: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of
something else [syn: {precondition}, {stipulation}]
4: (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: {term}]
5: the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases 'in
condition' or 'in shape' or 'out of condition' or 'out of
shape') [syn: {shape}]
6: information that should be kept in mind when making a
decision; "another consideration is the time it would
take" [syn: {circumstance}, {consideration}]
7: the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a
variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
[syn: {experimental condition}]
verb
1: establish a conditioned response
2: train by instruction and practice; especially to teach
self-control; "Parents must discipline their children";
"Is this dog trained?" [syn: {discipline}, {train}, {check}]
3: 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}, {specify}]
4: put into a better state; "he conditions old cars"
5: apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I
condition my hair after washing it"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Condition \Con*di"tion\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Conditioned}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Conditioning}.]
1. To make terms; to stipulate.
Pay me back my credit,
And I'll condition with ye. --Beau. & Fl.
2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or
conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged
to be impossible.
To think of a thing is to condition. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Condition \Con*di"tion\, noun [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.
I am in my condition
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. --Shak.
And O, what man's condition can be worse
Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
--Cowley.
The new conditions of life. --Darwin.
2. Essential quality; property; attribute.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine
powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others.
--Bacon.
3. Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.]
The condition of a saint and the complexion of a
devil. --Shak.
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.
I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to
be whipped at the high cross every morning. --Shak.
Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they
believe it without the condition of repentance.
--Jer. Taylor.
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.
{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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Condition \Con*di"tion\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. LL. conditionare. See
{Condition}, noun]
1. To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or
qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the
condition of.
Seas, that daily gain upon the shore,
Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
--Tennyson.
2. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that
Saturn should put to death all his male children.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
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.
4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of
moisture it contains). --McElrath.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
358 Moby Thesaurus words for "condition":
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
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