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paragraph
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parágraphos), from ???? (pará, “beside”) and ????? (gráph?, “I write”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?????æf/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæ??????f/
- Hyphenation: par?a?graph
Noun
paragraph (plural paragraphs)
- A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
- (originally) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- (computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
Translations
Verb
paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)
- To sort text into paragraphs.
Translations
See also
- ¶
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condition
English
Etymology
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nd?sh??n, IPA(key): /k?n?d???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- (law) 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.
- Synonym: fettle
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- conditional
- precondition
Related terms
- condition subsequent
- in condition
- statement of condition
Translations
Verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)
- (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.
Derived terms
- air-condition
- conditioner
- precondition
- recondition
Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, Borrowed from Latin condici?, condici?nis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.di.sj??/
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- term, condition
- condition, state
- en bonne condition - In good condition
- social status, walk of life
- Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. — The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.
Derived terms
- à condition que
- à condition de
- condition suffisante
- conditionnel
- conditions de vie
Further reading
- “condition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- condition (state, quality)
Descendants
- French: condition
condition From the web:
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