The difference between Condition and Fettle
When used as nouns, condition means a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. the phrase can either be true or false, whereas fettle means a state of proper physical condition.
When used as verbs, condition means to subject to the process of acclimation, whereas fettle means to sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
check bellow for the other definitions of Condition and Fettle
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Condition as a noun:
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
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Condition as a noun:
A requirement or requisite.
Examples:
"Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability. What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment."
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Condition as a noun (legal):
A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
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Condition as a noun:
The health status of a medical patient.
Examples:
"My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition."
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Condition as a noun:
The state or quality.
Examples:
"National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized."
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Condition as a noun:
A particular state of being.
Examples:
"Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened. Aging is a condition over which we are powerless."
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Condition as a noun (obsolete):
The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
Examples:
"A man of his condition has no place to make request."
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Condition as a verb:
To subject to the process of acclimation.
Examples:
"I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego."
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Condition as a verb:
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
Examples:
"They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."
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Condition as a verb (transitive):
To place conditions or limitations upon.
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Condition as a verb:
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
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Condition as a verb (transitive):
To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
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Condition as a verb (transitive):
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
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Condition as a verb (transitive):
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
Examples:
"rfquotek McElrath"
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Condition as a verb (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.
Examples:
"to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study"
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Condition as a verb:
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
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Fettle as a noun:
A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
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Fettle as a noun:
One's mental state; spirits.
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Fettle as a noun:
Sand used to line a furnace.
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Fettle as a noun (Geordie, Cumbria):
A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
Examples:
"What's yer fettle marra?"
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Fettle as a noun (ceramics):
a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
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Fettle as a noun (UK, dialect):
The act of fettling.
Examples:
"rfquotek Wright"
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Fettle as a verb (Northern England):
To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
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Fettle as a verb (intransitive):
To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
Examples:
"rfquotek Bishop Hall"
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Fettle as a verb (transitive):
To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
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Fettle as a verb (reflexive, Geordie):
To be upset or in a bad mood.
Examples:
"Divint fettle yersel ower that!"
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Fettle as a verb:
In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
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Fettle as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To prepare.