Definitionen
1.NounA state or quality."National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.; The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.; 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.; A man of his condition has no place to make requests.; My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition."
2.NounA particular state of being."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."
3.NounThe situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank."A man of his condition has no place to make requests."
4.NounThe health status of a medical patient."My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition."
5.NounA certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
6.NounA requirement."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."
7.NounA logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
8.NounA clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
9.VerbTo subject to the process of acclimation."I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.; Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor."
10.VerbTo subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise."They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."
11.VerbTo make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
12.VerbTo place conditions or limitations upon.
13.VerbTo shape the behaviour of someone to do something."The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements."
14.VerbTo treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
15.VerbTo contract; to stipulate; to agree.
16.VerbTo test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
17.VerbTo 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."to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study"
18.VerbTo impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.