What is the difference between condition and ply?

As nouns the difference between condition and ply

is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false while ply is a layer of material (two-ply toilet paper ).

As verbs the difference between condition and ply

is that condition is to subject to the process of acclimation while ply is to or ply can be to ly.

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

Statistics

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ply

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(plies)

A layer of material.

A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.

(colloquial) Plywood.

(artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made by one of the players.

He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.

State, condition.

* 1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin 1985, p. 66:

You may be sure, in the ply I was now taking, I had no objection to the proposal, and was rather a-tiptoe for its accomplishment.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , see Etymololgy 1.

Verb

to .

* L'Estrange

The willow plied , and gave way to the gust.

to .

Derived terms

* plier (agent noun) * pliers

Etymology 3

From (etyl)

Verb

To ly.

He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.

* Waller

Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply .

To work diligently.

* Milton

Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily).

* Addison

He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter.

To vigorously.

He plied his ax with bloody results.

To ly.

ply the seven seas

A steamer plies between certain ports.

To in offering.

* 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi

Esther began to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

She plied him with liquor.

To press upon; to urge importunately.

to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink

* Shakespeare

He plies the duke at morning and at night.

To employ diligently; to use steadily.

* Shakespeare

Go ply thy needle; meddle not.

(nautical) To work to windward; to beat.