condition
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A 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.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
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verb- 1.
To 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.
- 2.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- 3.
To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- 4.
(transitive)To place conditions or limitations upon.
- 5.
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
- 6.
(transitive)To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- 7.
(transitive)To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- 8.
(transitive)To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- 9.
(US, transitive)(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
- 10.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
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ine-pro From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native hād.