Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Imposing, depending on, or containing a condition. synonym: dependent.
- adjective Grammar Stating, containing, or implying a condition.
- adjective Psychology Brought about by conditioning.
- noun A mood, tense, clause, word, or morpheme expressing a condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imposing conditions; containing or depending on a condition or conditions; made with limitations; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; stipulative.
- Involving or expressing a condition.
- In grammar, expressing an assumption or a supposition; containing or involving a proposition as a premise from which a conclusion or inference follows: as, a conditional conjunction; a conditional sentence.
- A sale on condition that the vendor may repurchaser on certain terms.
- noun A word expressing a condition.
- noun A conditional clause; a limitation; a condition.
- noun In logic, a proposition which expresses a condition.
- noun In grammar, a conditional particle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms.
- adjective (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition.
- noun obsolete A limitation.
- noun A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun grammar A
conditional sentence ; a statement that depends on acondition beingtrue orfalse . - noun grammar The
conditional mood . - noun logic A statement that one
sentence istrue if another is. - noun computing, programming An
instruction thatbranches depending on the truth of acondition at that point. - noun obsolete A
limitation . - adjective Depending on a
condition . - adjective logic Stating that one
sentence istrue if another is.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective imposing or depending on or containing a condition
- adjective qualified by reservations
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Examples
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And the judge put him on 15 months ` probation, it ` s what we call a conditional discharge, which is what I talked about earlier.
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Egypt's MENA news agency said on Saturday Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo at the end of the week to discuss a response to what it called a conditional Syrian acceptance of monitors.
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Solar Millennium is eligible to secure $1.9 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Energy Department for the Blythe project.
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The U.S. Department of Education wrote to the Texas Commissioner of Education confirming conversations with Commissioner Scott (who signed the September 3, 2010 application after altering it) and other Texas State officials that the "State envisions submitting an application at a later date that does not contain conditional assurances."
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Solar Millennium is eligible to secure $1.9 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Energy Department for the Blythe project.
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Solar Millennium is eligible to secure $1.9 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Energy Department for the Blythe project.
Mojave Solar Plant: Feds Approve World's Largest Solar Power Plant In Mojave Desert AP 2010
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The appointment should (the conditional is de rigeur) be announced in the coming days, in any case no later than 29 June.
Rumour Watch: DiNoia To Succeed Ranjith As CDW Secretary? 2009
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Solar Millennium is eligible to secure $1.9 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Energy Department for the Blythe project.
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The third conditional is a convenient simplification. dfogarty (07: 24: 06):
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Solar Millennium is eligible to secure $1.9 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Energy Department for the Blythe project.
Mojave Solar Plant: Feds Approve World's Largest Solar Power Plant In Mojave Desert AP 2010
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