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| conditioned | |
| 1. adj. determined or dependent on some condition |  |
| 2. adj. physically fit, especially as the result of exercise | |
| 3. adj. prepared for a specific use | |
| 4. adj. (psychology) exhibiting a conditioned reflex | |
| condition | |
| 1. n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. | |
| 2. n. A requirement, term or requisite. | |
| 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 | |
| 3. n. (legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. | |
| 4. n. The health status of a medical patient. | |
| My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition. | |
| 5. n. The state or quality. | |
| National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized. | |
| 6. n. A 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 threat | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank. | |
| A man of his condition has no place to make request. | |
| 8. v. To subject to the process of acclimation. | |
| I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego. | |
| 9. v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. | |
| They were conditioning their shins in their karate class. | |
| 10. v. To place conditions or limitations upon. | |
| 11. v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. | |
| 12. v. To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner. | |
| 13. v. To contract; to stipulate; to agree. | |
| 14. v. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). | |
| 15. v. (US, colleges transitive) 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. | |
| to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study | |
| 16. v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. | |
