condition
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(verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; of hair |
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Related Words: shampoo |
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(verb) put into a better state; "he conditions old cars" |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, recondition |
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(verb) establish a conditioned response |
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Related Words: instruct, learn, teach |
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(noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition |
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Synonyms: experimental condition |
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Related Words: procedure, process |
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(noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else |
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Synonyms: precondition, stipulation |
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Related Words: assumption, boundary condition, premise, premiss, provision, proviso |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: term |
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Related Words: statement |
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(noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or things: "the human condition" |
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Related Words: dark, darkness, illumination, iniquity, light, malady, state, wickedness |
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(noun) a condition or state at a particular time: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
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Synonyms: status |
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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 |
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(noun) the state of (good) health--especially in the phrases "in condition" or "in shape" or "out of condition" or "out of shape" |
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Synonyms: shape |
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Related Words: fitness, good condition, good health, good shape, healthiness, physical fitness |
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(noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" |
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Synonyms: circumstance, consideration |
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Related Words: information, justification, mitigating circumstance |
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(verb) specify as a condition; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life" |
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Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate |
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Related Words: contract, provide, undertake |
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(verb) train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children" |
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Synonyms: check, discipline, train |
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Related Words: develop, make grow |
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