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condition (someone or something) to (something)

1. To train someone or an animal to do something in a particular way or to act in a certain way. Years of office work have conditioned me to get up at 6 AM, even on the weekends. The dog has been conditioned to run to his bowl when I open the cabinet where we store his food.
2. To acclimate someone or an animal to something. It will take time to condition ourselves to the pace of life in our sleepy new town. How long will it take to condition the dog to our commands?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

condition someone or something to something

 
1. to train or adapt someone or an animal to do something. I conditioned the dog to beg for a treat. Over the years, he had conditioned himself to run for hours at a stretch.
2. to train or adapt someone or an animal to something. We could never condition the cat to the finer points of domestication. I conditioned myself to the extreme cold.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • condition (someone or something) to (something)
  • fence (someone or something) off from (something)
  • put (one) off the scent
  • put a dog off the scent
  • put off the scent
  • put someone off the scent
  • put/throw somebody off the scent
  • force (someone or an animal) from (something)
  • study animal
  • imprint on (someone or something)
References in classic literature
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards victory.
* a target section for permanent attachment to a landing area on another portion of the article, when the fastener is in the closed condition and conditions thereafter, a fastening section connected to the target section when the fastener is in conditions prior to the opened condition; disconnected from the target section when fastener is converted from the closed condition to the opened condition, and attachable to and from the target section when the fastener is converted between the re-closed condition and the re-opened condition;
Other research has attempted to allocate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) across medical conditions or quantify the relative contribution of a specific condition to overall medical expenditures (Murray and Lopez 1996; Finkelstein, Fiebelkorn, and Wang 2003, 2004; Finkelstein et al.
If the corrected sample height is chosen, the software will add the displacement reading at the load hold value for each test condition to the sample height for the cylindrical or rectangular specimens.
A new generation of ecologic indicators is needed to measure the condition, diagnose stressors, communicate condition to the public, assess potential future status, and evaluate management actions in our coastal regions.
However, such data are generally inadequate to predict the structural performance of a design under real-life conditions, since single-point data are usually gathered by measuring performance at a single condition, which rarely is the same condition to which a target application will be exposed.
The model accurately predicts changes in output, going from one input condition to another.
As a condition to securing a bank loan to expand its facility, the taxpayer in the TAM was required to (i) remove the asbestos from the boiler house and (ii) encapsulate the asbestos contained in pipe insulation in the warehouse.
However, AIDS was the only condition to which a significant proportion of respondents (24.9 percent) answered that they were "not sure" about whether it had improved or deteriorated.
However, due to its significance, we consider this condition to be a material weakness in internal controls.
We chose to analyze data for only one lecture in each condition to minimize inconvenience to the participants.
The language familiar to all brokers, "commission shall be due and payable only, if, as, and when title closes," has been generally deemed to be a condition to payment.
The second type of boundary condition to be considered is that in which the sample surface is subjected to a linear rate of temperature rise.