Meaning of 'condition' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- Essential quality; property; attribute.
- Temperament; disposition; character.
- 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.
- 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.
- To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or
qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- 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.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion
of moisture it contains).
- train; acclimate.
- To make terms; to stipulate.
- To impose upon an object those relations or
conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be
impossible.
Meaning of 'condition' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a state at a particular time
Example in sentence:- a condition (or state) of disrepair;
- the current status of the arms negotiations
Meaning (2):
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem
Example in sentence:- a heart condition;
- a skin condition
Meaning (3):
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
Example in sentence:- another consideration is the time it would take
Meaning (4):
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
Example in sentence:- the contract set out the conditions of the lease;
- the terms of the treaty were generous
Meaning (5):
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
Meaning (6):
- put into a better state
Meaning (7):
- apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny
Example in sentence:- I condition my hair after washing it
Meaning (8):
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
Example in sentence:- Is this dog trained?;
- Parents must discipline their children
Meaning (9):
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
Example in sentence:- The contract stipulates the dates of the payments;
- The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life
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