Word Finder - condition

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A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

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A requirement or requisite.

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Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.   What other planets might have the right conditions for life?   The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.

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

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The health status of a medical patient.

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

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The state or quality.

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National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.   The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.

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A particular state of being.

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Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.   Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.   Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.   Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.

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The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

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A man of his condition has no place to make request.

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To subject to the process of acclimation.

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I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.

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To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

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They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

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To place conditions or limitations upon.

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To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

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To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

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To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

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

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(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.

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to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study

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To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

You're in no condition to run around town.

Do you know the condition I am in?

Nicholas Rostov experienced this blissful condition to the full when, after 1807, he continued to serve in the Pavlograd regiment, in which he already commanded the squadron he had taken over from Denisov.

My father, to whom I have told my plans, has made it an express condition of his consent that the wedding is not to take place for a year.

He had learned that as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.

He felt in no condition to deal with this.

This happy condition has obtained throughout her life.

With the hour, he may know the condition of his team member.

It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the Torula condition has become fixed.

She couldn't outrun it - in any condition, and it could climb a tree as fast as she could.

Betsy read a notice on the Internet a day later that the culprit was beaten and in serious condition, after allegedly resisting arrest.

But then, Lori surely wouldn't be interested in him now, in his condition... unless she thought he might die and leave her something.

The bullet hole hadn't been visible at first due to Wassermann's long hair, the condition of the body, and the length of time in the water.

Pierre's physical condition, as is always the case, corresponded to his mental state.

It would be perfect hideaway - old log cabin in excellent condition - breathtaking scenery.

All were in excellent condition and she suspected that he probably used them regularly.

That was the condition of the deal.

I wish I knew Shipton's condition and what, if anything he saw or told them he saw.

Nothing for miles in working condition, except the fed buildings down the road.

In 1796, he extracted fluid from the pox on the hand of a dairymaid named Sarah Nelmes—who had caught the condition from her cow Blossom—and injected the fluid into a cut in eight-year-old James Phipps's arm.

By looking at how the genome varies between people with a genetic condition and people without it, we can identify the troublemaking gene.

Anna Mikhaylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, on condition that she should tell no one.

Under what condition is the will of the people delegated to one person?

Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.

There seemed to be improvement in her mother's condition but Cynthia's mood remained subdued.

The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

The condition of fugitives and of pursuers was equally bad.

The mules were lathered - a condition that could be dangerous in the desert.

No, there was no change in Julie's condition nor was Howie there.

With this object he intended to meet the regiment; so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander- in-chief would be.

The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.

This was only the second time she had seen him in that condition — both times since he married Lori.

Sam was keeping them in excellent condition.

It should always be specially noted whether the fungi to be consumed are in a fresh and wholesome condition, otherwise they act as a poison in precisely the same way as does any other semi-putrid vegetable.

He must maintain a strictly impartial attitude of body and mind, accept no presents from the people of his district, and render judgment only when he is in a normal condition mentally and physically.

Guided by the swan he reached Antwerp, and married the lady on condition that she should not ask his origin.

It is a native of India, Burma and the Malay Archipel ago, and is most abundant in those regions in which the climate is distinctly humid, and subject to this condition the tree flourishes at high altitudes.

Is this the condition to which I must come?

It's old, but still in good condition.

The ordinary forms of metallic filings coherer of the Branly type require tapping to bring them back to the high resistance or sensitive condition.

Lodge arranged a mechanical tapper for the purpose which continually administered the small blow to the tube sufficient to keep the filings in a sensitive condition.

Towards the end of 1888, after recovering from an earlier attack, he was pronounced hopelessly insane, and in this condition he remained until he died on the 25th of August 1900.

The best condition and form in which to export rubber cannot be regarded as settled.

This will operate to the advantage of plantation rubber and against the wild rubber, so long as the latter is not exported in a purer condition.

It appears to be the principal cause of stickiness or the " tacky " condition of some rubbers, which considerably depreciates their commercial value.

The towns, in most cases creations of the rulers of Bohemia who had called in German immigrants, were, with the exception of the "new town" of Prague, mainly German; and in consequence of the regulations of the university, Germans also held almost all the more important ecclesiastical offices - a condition of things greatly resented by the natives of Bohemia, which at this period had reached a high degree of intellectual development.

The failure of the campaign of 1760, so far as Russiaand France were concerned, induced the court of Versailles, on the evening of the 22nd of January 1761, to present to the court of St Petersburg a despatch to the effect that the king of France by reason of the condition of his dominions absolutely desired peace.

But his followers deserted, and his condition appeared hopeless.

Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?