What is the difference between condition and shape?
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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
The status or condition of something
Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The appearance of something, especially its outline.
A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
Form; formation.
* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :
(iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 74:
*:‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape .’
To give something a shape and definition.
* 1932 , The American Scholar , page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
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, title= To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
* Prior
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, title= (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between condition and shape
is that condition is the situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank while shape is to imagine; to conceive.In transitive terms the difference between condition and shape
is that condition is to test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains) while shape is to give something a shape and definition.As nouns the difference between condition and shape
is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false while shape is the status or condition of something.As verbs the difference between condition and shape
is that condition is to subject to the process of acclimation while shape is to give something a shape and definition.condition
English
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 ----shape
English
Noun
(en noun)- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape .
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contest shape * * in no shape to * * in shape * out of shape * shapeless * shapely * shapesmith * shape-shifter * shape-shifting * shipshape * take shape * the shape of things to come * whip into shapeSee also
*Verb
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
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- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. }}
- (Shakespeare)
- Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.