condition

1. (verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; of hair
Related Words: shampoo

2. (verb) put into a better state; "he conditions old cars"
Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, recondition

3. (verb) establish a conditioned response
Related Words: instruct, learn, teach

4. (noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
Synonyms: experimental condition
Related Words: procedure, process

5. (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
Synonyms: precondition, stipulation
Related Words: assumption, boundary condition, premise, premiss, provision, proviso

6. (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditons of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
Synonyms: term
Related Words: statement

7. (noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or things: "the human condition"
Related Words: dark, darkness, illumination, iniquity, light, malady, state, wickedness

8. (noun) a condition or state at a particular time: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
Synonyms: status
Related Words: abnormalcy, abnormality, ambiance, ambience, amyotonia, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, astigmatism, astigmia, atmosphere, atonia, atonicity, atony, baldness, celibacy, circumstance, circumstances, climate, comfort, comfortableness, control, curvature, danger, decline, demand, deshabille, despair, desperation, destiny, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorder, disorderliness, dominance, dryness, economic condition, emptiness, ennoblement, environmental condition, eye condition, fate, financial condition, fortune, fullness, guilt, guiltiness, hairlessness, homelessness, hopefulness, hyalinization, immunity, improvement, impureness, impurity, innocence, lot, luck, mental state, mood, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, normalcy, normality, nudeness, nudity, order, orderliness, ordinary, phalacrosis, physiological state, place, polarization, portion, position, psychological state, pureness, purity, reinstatement, repair, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, serration, silence, sinlessness, situation, ski conditions, social stratification, soundness, state, stigmatism, stratification, susceptibility, susceptibleness, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tilth, uncomfortableness, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, upset, vacuolation, vacuolization, virginity, waterlessness, way, weather conditions, wetness

9. (noun) the state of (good) health--especially in the phrases "in condition" or "in shape" or "out of condition" or "out of shape"
Synonyms: shape
Related Words: fitness, good condition, good health, good shape, healthiness, physical fitness

10. (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take"
Synonyms: circumstance, consideration
Related Words: information, justification, mitigating circumstance

11. (verb) specify as a condition; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"
Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate
Related Words: contract, provide, undertake

12. (verb) train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"
Synonyms: check, discipline, train
Related Words: develop, make grow



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