Portion vs Condition - What's the difference?
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An allocated amount.
That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
One's fate; lot.
* Bible, Luke xii. 46
* Keble
The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
* Bible, Luke xv. 12
A wife's fortune; a dowry.
* 1613 , , V. iv. 31:
To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
To endow with a portion or inheritance.
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
Portion is a related term of condition.
As nouns the difference between portion and condition
is that portion is portion while condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false.As a verb condition is
to subject to the process of acclimation.portion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lord of that servant will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Man's portion is to die and rise again.
- Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
- Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.
Usage notes
Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).Synonyms
* part * pieceDerived terms
* portionless * proportionVerb
(en verb)- Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. — Alexander Pope.
Usage notes
* Particularly used as portion out. * Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.Synonyms
* divide, divide up * divvy, divvy upDerived terms
* portion off * portion outExternal links
* * ----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 .