to condition
49
4.2
- verb
- /kənˈdɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
condicionar
- She spent months conditioning her dog to respond to commands with just a whistle.
- conditioned responses
- conditioned to think
- culturally conditioned
You suddenly condition yourself to naturally go that way.
- You suddenly condition yourself to naturally go that way.
- Whatever happened to you in the past conditions you to become this particular person.
- They do like, but most are people who condition you.
- So there actually is this like pain cycle that we go through of where we can actually condition ourselves to feel pain more often.
- Like I want to condition them to believe anything is possible and back it up with work ethic and focus.
- Like do those things that do not condition your brain to lose focus quickly and you will retrain your brain to pay attention for longer periods of time focus, right.
- And so in that present, in the moment, we must condition ourselves to to embrace what's going to be good as opposed to embrace what could be bad.
- Could we actually condition more social virtue, more civic virtue, more orientation towards dialectical synthesis, more empathy, more rationality?
Examples
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Like I want to condition them to believe anything is possible and back it up with work ethic and focus.
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His behavior was conditioned by forces beyond his control.
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You suddenly condition yourself to naturally go that way.
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Knowing what they are, we can begin to approach them properly, condition them, control them.
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OK, so then how do you condition that in the classical manner?
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They try to condition us, you know?
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When we heard the beep, we were conditioned to begin eating whether she was home yet or not.
Fiction book (2002) -
But once students are conditioned with rewards, learning has less intrinsic value to them.
Academic text (1994) -
Walter Payton had done so much to get the Bears there and he'd done so much to condition players to win.
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Scientism, our materialistic society, has conditioned us to have many doubts about spirituality.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To teach someone skills by practice and help
To train a person or animal to respond to a specific signal
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
24
1.9
The state of the air at a place and time, like temperature, wind, clouds, or rain
20
3.7
The state of jobs, prices, and business activity in a country at a particular time
- Specialized
8
4.1
The state of the air, water, or land at a place that affects living things
7
3.7
The state of a person or company's money, things they own, and debts at a time
3
3.4
The weather at a place and time, including temperature, wind, and rain or snow
1
5.6
A problem with a person's mental health that changes how they think, feel or behave
- Specialized
1
8.0
A rule giving values at the edge of a space to solve an equation
- Specialized
1
4.0
A health problem parents can pass to their children through genes
- Specialized
1
4.9
A part of an experiment where researchers change one thing to see its effect compared with a control group
- Specialized
1
4.4
The body's state and how well its parts work, especially for health
- Specialized
1
5.5
A group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment and is used for comparison
A group of words that says when something will happen or what must happen first, often starting with if
- Specialized
A bone illness in young children caused by not having enough vitamin D that makes bones weak or deformed
- Archaic
Swollen lumps in the neck caused by an infection, often tuberculosis
How Trained
118
7.3
- Specialized
49
4.2
∞
1.0
139
3.6
479
3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb condition (to train) comes from the idea of putting someone into a certain 'condition' by repeated practice. So to condition a person or animal is to teach them to be in a certain state where they behave in a particular way.