Word Finder - conditions

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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.

I'll help you on two conditions.

They forget that my whole body is alive to the conditions about me.

This alteration improved the operating conditions in three ways.

I am frequently asked how I overcome the peculiar conditions under which I work in college.

The political conditions of Europe favored the realization of Italian desires.

The disturbing conditions of will, life and organic forces are eliminated from the problem; he starts with the clear and distinct idea of extension, figured and moved, and thence by mathematical laws he gives a hypothetical explanation of all things.

By doing this, we will come to understand those conditions better and perhaps prevent them.

What we call "heart disease" will become hundreds of individual conditions each with its own cause and, hopefully, cure.

The indifference of the Jews to the desolate conditions of their sanctuary opens up a problem of some difficulty.

But outsourcing to pollute, oppress workers, or have unsafe working conditions hurts the world's standard of living.

For environmentalist organizations like Greenpeace to be against GMO in all its forms under all conditions does nothing at all to serve them or the constituencies they purport to represent.

He was surprised to find that this inner freedom, which was independent of external conditions, now had as it were an additional setting of external liberty.

It is even somewhat precipitate to assume that a mean value deduced from a single year is fairly representative of average conditions.

In the rural districts of the northern provinces, the increase in population is much less than in the central provinces, the conditions of life being less favourable.

After attempting to govern under these conditions for nearly two years, the prince, with the consent of the tsar Alexander III., assumed absolute power (May 9, 1881), and a suspension of the ultra-democratic constitution for a period of seven years was voted by a specially convened assembly (July 13).

The Permian deposits are best developed in New South Wales and Tasmania, where their characters show the continuation of the Carboniferous conditions.

This is due in part to the different physical conditions there prevailing and in part to the invasion of the north-eastern portion of the continent by a number of plants characteristically Melanesian.

It was eventually compromised by giving the power, but only with safeguarding conditions, to the Federal arbitration court.

The thegn became a member of a territorial nobility, and the dignity of thegnhood was attainable by those who fulfilled certain conditions.

The ratio of the portion of the energy of a system which can under given conditions be converted into mechanical work to the whole amount of energy operated upon may be called the "availability" of the energy.

The actual number of sets of apparatus it was possible to work multiplex depended upon the length of the line, for if the latter were long, retardation effects modified the working conditions.

These suggestions were to some extent an anticipation of the work of Reis; but the conditions to be fulfilled before the sounds given out at the receiving station can be similar in pitch, quality and relative intensity to those produced at the transmitting station are not stated, and do not seem to have been appreciated.

This advance did not merely remove the primary batteries from the subscribers' stations; it removed also the magneto-generator, and at the same time it modified considerably the conditions governing the exchange operating.

It was found possible to exchange speech when the conditions were exceptionally favourable; but in spite of the partial success of the experiment, a public service between the two capitals is not at present practicable.

Darwins expression the nature of the organism has been interpreted in the preceding paragraph to mean an inherent tendency towards higher organization; that interpretation may now be completed by adding that the organism is susceptible to, and can respond to, the action of external conditions.

The steppe conditions extend over the greater part of the Crimea and up to the foothills of the Caucasus.

No one is concerned to prove that the Ricardian economics applies to the manorial system, and it is generally supposed at any rate that the world has been approximating more and more nearly during the last century to the conditions assumed in most of the reasoning of that school.

When dealing with colligative properties of liquids it is equally necessary to ensure comparability of conditions.

The existence of sulphuretted hydrogen in great quantities below loo fathoms, the extensive chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate, the stagnant nature of its deep waters, and the absence of deep-sea life are conditions which make it impossible to discuss it along with the physical and biological conditions of the Mediterranean proper.

When the economy entered recession, the workhouse conditions had to be worsened more.

We have not only outlawed cruelty to animals, but increasingly, people care about the living conditions of even the animals they eat.

Since the poorest nations will improve their financial conditions indefinitely, this is a long-term trend toward peace.

The one thing he now desired with his whole soul was to get away quickly from the terrible sensations amid which he had lived that day and return to ordinary conditions of life and sleep quietly in a room in his own bed.

He felt that only in the ordinary conditions of life would he be able to understand himself and all he had seen and felt.

Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting.

The French perished from the conditions to which the Russian army was itself exposed.

Historians of the third class assume that the will of the people is transferred to historic personages conditionally, but that the conditions are unknown to us.

Such is the reply historians who assume that the collective will of the people is delegated to rulers under conditions which they regard as known.

Similarly there is a difference of opinion as to the conditions under which the organisms have been mineralized, some holding that the process has taken place at a high temperature and under great pressure; but the lack of practical evidence in nature in support of these views has led many to conclude that petroleum, like coal, has been formed at moderate temperatures, and under pressures varying with the depth of the containing rocks.

Consult further Materials for the Study of the Economic Conditions of West Siberia (22 vols., St Petersburg, 1889-1898), condensed in Peasant Land-Tenure and Husbandry in Tobolsk and Tomsk (St Petersburg, 1894), both in Russian.

It was indeed only a renewal, under new conditions, of the conflict between two types of thought, the rational and the mystical, the school of Antioch and that of Alexandria.

In the same address he called attention to the conditions of the world's food supply, urging that with the low yield at present realized per acre the supply of wheat would within a comparatively short time cease to be equal to the demand caused by increasing population, and that since nitrogenous manures are essential for an increase in the yield, the hope of averting starvation, as regards those races for whom wheat is a staple food, depended on the ability of the chemist to find an artificial method for fixing the nitrogen of the air.

The Clerical Resignation Bonds Act 1828 makes a written promise to resign valid if made in favour of some particular nominee or one of two nominees, subject to the conditions that, where there are two nominees, each of them must be either by blood or marriage an uncle, son, grandson, brother, nephew or grand-nephew of the patron, that the writing be deposited with the registrar of the diocese open to public inspection, and that the resignation be followed by presentation within six months of the person for whose benefit the bond is made.

At the great Indian eclipse of 1868 he demonstrated the gaseous nature of the red prominences, and devised a method of observing them under ordinary daylight conditions.

For an algebraic solution the invariants must fulfil certain conditions.

Before the general peace of 1815 he had served in North America and the West Indies and gained a wide knowledge of conditions of life on board ship under various commanders.

The adaptation of the Gospel to the changing conditions of humanity is to-day a more pressing need than ever.

The importance of storage reservoirs is manifest under such conditions of flow, especially bearing in mind the growth of population in the London district and of its increasing needs.

Under ordinary conditions the sluices are raised to admit boats to pass from the half flood to half ebb, so that the river remains tidal up to Teddington, the next lock.

In smelting at once in the same blast-furnace ores of different character, the old use of separate processes of precipitation, roasting and reduction, and general reduction prevailing in the Harz Mountains, Freiberg and other places, to suit local conditions, has been abandoned.