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Noun condition has 7 senses

condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
--₁ is a kind of state
--₁ has particulars:

health; mode; niche, ecological niche; noise conditions; participation, involvement; prepossession; regularization, regularisation; saturation; silence; situation, position; ski conditions; nomination; standardization, standardisation; stigmatism; astigmatism, astigmia; way; circumstance; homelessness; reinstatement; place; celibacy; virginity; innocence; purity, sinlessness, innocence; guilt, guiltiness; encapsulation; polarization, polarisation; pathological state; disorder, upset; hyalinization, hyalinisation; vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation; protuberance; curvature; psychological state, mental state; difficulty; improvement, melioration; decline, declination; ennoblement; dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control; comfort, comfortableness; discomfort, uncomfortableness; need, demand; fullness; emptiness; nakedness, nudity, nudeness; hairlessness, depilation; dishabille, deshabille; hopefulness; despair, desperation; purity, pureness; impurity, impureness; financial condition, economic condition; sanitary condition; tilth; orderliness, order; disorderliness, disorder; normality, normalcy; abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition; lactosuria; environmental condition; climate, mood; atmosphere, ambiance, ambience; unsusceptibility, immunity; immunity, resistance; subservience; susceptibility, susceptibleness; wetness; dryness, waterlessness, xerotes; safety; danger; tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness; atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia; repair; soundness; mutism; eye condition; unsoundness; iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark; light, illumination; malady; serration; absolution; automation; brutalization, brutalisation; condemnation; deification; diversification; exoneration; facilitation; fruition; hospitalization; identification; impaction; ionization, ionisation; irradiation; lubrication; mechanization, mechanisation; motivation; mummification; preservation; rustication; scandalization, scandalisation; submission; urbanization, urbanisation

Derived form: verb condition₄

condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"
--₂ is a kind of state
--₂ has particulars:

condition, precondition, stipulation - an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
--₃ is a kind of premise, premiss, assumption
--₃ has particulars: boundary condition; provision, proviso
Derived form: verb condition₃
condition, term - (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
--₄ is a kind of statement
--₄ is a part of agreement, understanding
Derived form: verb condition₃
condition, shape - the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')
--₅ is a kind of good health, healthiness
--₅ has particulars: fitness, physical fitness, good shape, good condition
circumstance, condition, consideration - information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take"
--₆ is a kind of information
--₆ has particulars: justification; mitigating circumstance
Derived form: verb condition₃
condition, experimental condition - the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
--₇ is a kind of procedure, process
--₇ is a part of experiment, experimentation

,Verb condition has 5 senses

condition - establish a conditioned response
--₁ is one way to teach, learn, instruct

Derived form: noun conditioning₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
discipline, train, check, condition - train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?"
--₂ is one way to develop, make grow

Derived form: noun conditioner₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
stipulate, qualify, condition, specify - specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
--₃ is one way to contract, undertake

Derived forms: noun condition₃, noun condition₄, noun condition₆
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
condition - put into a better state; "he conditions old cars"
--₄ is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate

Derived forms: noun condition₁, noun conditioner₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
condition - apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it"
--₅ is one way to shampoo

Derived form: noun conditioner₃
Sample sentence:
They condition their hair