English Dictionary

condition

/kənˈdɪʃən/

verb

To subject to the process of acclimation. / To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. / To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.

The plants need to be conditioned before being planted in the garden.

意味（1）

To subject to the process of acclimation.

I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.

意味（2）

To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

意味（3）

To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.

意味（4）

(transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.

Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.

意味（5）

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.

意味（6）

(transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

意味（7）

(transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

[P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.

意味（8）

(transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed

意味（9）

(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

意味（10）

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

To think is thus to condition, because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.