Conduct vs Condition - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between conduct and condition

is that conduct is the act or method of controlling or directing while condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false.

As verbs the difference between conduct and condition

is that conduct is (archaic|transitive) to lead, or guide; to escort while condition is to subject to the process of acclimation.

conduct

English

Noun

(-)

The act or method of controlling or directing

* 1785 , (William Paley), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.

* Ld. Brougham

the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs

Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

Conduct of armies is a prince's art. - .

* Robertson

with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.

The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

Good conduct''' will be rewarded and likewise poor '''conduct will be punished.

* Macaulay

All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.

* Dryden

What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?

(of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

* Macaulay

the book of Job, in conduct and diction

(obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

* Ben Jonson

I will be your conduct .

* Shakespeare

In my conduct shall your ladies come.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

* Shakespeare

although thou hast been conduct of my chame

Synonyms

* (act or method of controlling or directing ) control, guidance, management * (manner of guiding or carrying one's self ): bearing, behavior/behaviour, deportment, demeanor/demeanour, * (plot of a literary work) action, plot, storyline

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To lead, or guide; to escort.

* 1634 , (John Milton),

I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.

To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.

to conduct the affairs of a kingdom

Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.

(reflexively to conduct oneself ) To behave.

He conducted himself well.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

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(music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

* 2006 , Michael R. Waters with Mark Long and William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne

For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted' the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had '''conducted''' the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, ' conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.

To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

To carry out (something organized)

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Synonyms

* (lead or guide) accompany, escort, guide, lead, steer, belead * (direct) direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, belead * act, behave, carry on * (to serve as a medium for conveying) carry, convey, transmit

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condition

English

Noun

(en noun)

A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

A requirement, term or requisite.

(legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

The health status of a medical patient.

The state or quality.

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A particular state of being.

(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.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "condition")

Synonyms

* (the health or state of something) fettle

Derived terms

* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient condition

Verb

(en 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 place conditions or limitations upon.

* Tennyson

Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.

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

(McElrath)

(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

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

* Sir W. Hamilton

To think of a thing is to condition .

Derived terms

* air-condition * conditioner * precondition * recondition

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