method English
Noun
( en noun)
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
* , chapter=3
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
, title= An Acoustic Arms Race
, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
Derived terms
(A process by which a task is completed)
* comparative method
* historical method
* methodical
* methodology
* scholarly method
* scientific method
* Socratic method
* philosophical method
* convenience method
* virtual method
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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.
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(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.
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The state or quality.
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, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
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A particular state of being.
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(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.
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).
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(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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