condition vs should

condition

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

  • 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 shape the behaviour of someone to do something. 

  • 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 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. 

should

verb
  • Used to express a conditional outcome. 

  • Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future. 

  • Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now. 

  • With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way. 

  • To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality. 

  • Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance. 

  • Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. 

  • Simple past tense of shall. 

  • In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc. 

  • Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must'). 

  • Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable. 

  • Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc. 

noun
  • Something that ought to be the case as opposed to already being the case. 

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