What is the difference between condition and loss?
condition | loss |
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.
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
* Tennyson
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
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(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 impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
* Sir W. Hamilton
an instance of losing, such as a defeat
The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone
(in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict
(financial) the sum an entity loses on balance
destruction, ruin
(engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work
As nouns the difference between condition and loss
is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false while loss is an instance of losing, such as a defeat.As a verb condition
is to subject to the process of acclimation.condition
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Noun
(en noun)- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "condition")Synonyms
* (the health or state of something) fettleDerived terms
* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient conditionVerb
(en verb)- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
- Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
- (McElrath)
- to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To think of a thing is to condition .
Derived terms
* air-condition * conditioner * precondition * reconditionStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----loss
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(es)- The match ended in their first loss of the season.
- Loss of an arm ; loss of weight ; loss of cognitive functions ; loss of appetite.
- We mourn his loss .
- The battle was won, but losses were great.
- ''The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss , when this difference is positive.
- ''It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses
- The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss''' before the subsequent ' losses during transport over the grid