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Conditions

noun

1.

The prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process.

2.

The set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare. "Harsh living conditions"

3.

The atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation. Synonyms: atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition. "Every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception" , "The conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow"

Condition

noun

1.

A state at a particular time. Synonym: status. "The current status of the arms negotiations"

2.

An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else. Synonyms: precondition, stipulation.

3.

A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.

4.

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision. Synonyms: circumstance, consideration.

5.

The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases 'in condition' or 'in shape' or 'out of condition' or 'out of shape'). Synonym: shape.

6.

An illness, disease, or other medical problem. "A skin condition"

7.

(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement. Synonym: term. "The terms of the treaty were generous"

8.

The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition. Synonym: experimental condition.

verb

(past & past part. conditioned; pres. part. conditioning)

1.

Establish a conditioned response.

2.

Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control. Synonyms: check, discipline, train. "Is this dog trained?"

3.

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement. Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate. "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"

4.

Put into a better state.

5.

Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny.

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"Conditions" Quotes from Famous Books

... or resting in the discretion of the State, is necessarily of the nature of an armistice, in effect terminable at will and on short notice. It is maintained only on conditions, stipulated by express convention or established by custom, and there is always the reservation, tacit or explicit, that recourse will be had to arms in case the "national interests" or the punctilios of international etiquette ...

— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen

... biologist and physicist thinks, and doubtless thinks wisely, that the reason why we have never been able to produce living from non-living matter in our laboratories, is that we cannot take time enough. Even if we could bring about the conditions of the early geologic ages in which life had its dawn, which of course we cannot, we could not produce life because we have not geologic time ...

— Time and Change • John Burroughs

... Conspiracy More Heinous than the Act Committed; Combinations to Injure Trade; Individual Injuries to Business; Definition of Forestalling; "The Iowa Idea"; The Statutes of Labor; First Statute of Laborers; A Fixed Wage; Early Law of Strikes; Early Law of Trades-Unions; Labor Conditions in Early Times; Combinations to Fix Prices; Unlawful By-Laws of Unions; Restraint of Trade; The Eight to Labor; The Earliest Boycott; Origin of the Injunction in Labor Cases; The Common Law Vindicated; Compulsory Labor in England; ...

— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... the resources with which they had been endowed. While it was admitted that in their earlier days they had been extremely useful in mitigating distress among the poor, it was now argued that their indiscriminate charities were doing more harm than good, and that the changed economic conditions of the sixteenth century called for a corresponding change in the distribution of relief, to save the country from being overrun by undeserving mendicants, amongst whom some of the religious Orders were themselves to be reckoned. It does not appear that any part of this argument held ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield • George Worley

... by the life in Macon; positively influenced in that much of this life became a part of his own, and negatively in that he reacted against many conditions and ideals that prevailed there. All the time there was developing in him his own genius. He did not remember a time when he could not play upon almost any musical instrument. "When he was seven years old he made his first effort ...

— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

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