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Condition can be a noun or a verb.
condition used as a noun:
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement, term or requisite.
"Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability." - The health status of a medical patient.
"My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition." - The state or quality.
"National reports on the condition of public education are dismal." - A particular state of being.
"Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system." - 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."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
condition used as a verb:
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
"I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego." - To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
"They were conditioning their shins in their karate class." - To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is condition?
- Noun usage: Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- Noun usage: What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
- Noun usage: The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
- Noun usage: My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.
- Noun usage: National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- Noun usage: The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
- Noun usage: Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
- Noun usage: Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
- Noun usage: Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
- Noun usage: Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
- Noun usage: A man of his condition has no place to make request.
- Verb usage: I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- Verb usage: They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of condition are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of condition, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
