condition vs metre

condition

verb
  • To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. 

  • To place conditions or limitations upon. 

  • To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner. 

  • To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). 

  • To contract; to stipulate; to agree. 

  • To subject to the process of acclimation. 

  • To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. 

  • 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 make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on. 

  • To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. 

noun
  • A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. 

  • A requirement or requisite. 

  • The health status of a medical patient. 

  • A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness. 

  • A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. 

  • The state or quality. 

  • A particular state of being. 

metre

verb
  • To put into metrical form. 

noun
  • The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches. 

  • The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. 

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