Attack and Condition

noun

• Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons. ()
  • usage: "the attack began at dawn"
  • synonyms: onslaught, onset, onrush
• An offensive move in a sport or game.
  • usage: "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
• Intense adverse criticism.
  • usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  • synonyms: fire, flak, flack, blast
• Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
  • usage: "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided"
  • synonyms: approach, plan of attack
• The act of attacking.
  • usage: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"
  • synonyms: attempt
• A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.
  • synonyms: tone-beginning
• A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
  • usage: "an attack of diarrhea"
• The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent. )
  • usage: "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements"
• Strong criticism.
  • usage: "he published an unexpected attack on my work"

verb

• Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.
  • usage: "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
  • synonyms: assail
• Attack in speech or writing.
  • usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  • synonyms: round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
• Take the initiative and go on the offensive.
  • usage: "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
  • synonyms: aggress
• Attack someone physically or emotionally.
  • usage: "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
  • synonyms: assail, assault, set on
• Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
  • usage: "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
• Begin to injure.
  • usage: "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

• (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
• (v.t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
• (v.t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
• (v.t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
• (v.t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem or some object of labor or investigation.
• (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
• (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
• (n.) The act of attacking or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
• (v.i.) To make an onset or attack.

noun

• A state at a particular time.
  • usage: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
  • synonyms: status
• An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else.
  • synonyms: precondition, stipulation
• A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.
  • usage: "the human condition"
• Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision.
  • usage: "another consideration is the time it would take"
  • synonyms: circumstance, consideration
• The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape'.
  • synonyms: shape
• An illness, disease, or other medical problem.
  • usage: "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"
• Usually plural. ( a statement of what is required as part of an agreement)
  • usage: "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
  • synonyms: term
• The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition.
  • synonyms: experimental condition

verb

• Establish a conditioned response.
• Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
  • usage: "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained"
  • synonyms: discipline, train, check
• Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
  • usage: "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
  • synonyms: stipulate, qualify, specify
• Put into a better state.
  • usage: "he conditions old cars"
• Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny.
  • usage: "I condition my hair after washing it"

• (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
• (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
• (n.) To invest with or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
• (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
• (v.i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
• (n.) A clause in a contract or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
• (n.) 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; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
• (v.i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
• (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
• (n.) train; acclimate.

(DoD) Those variables of an operational environment or situation in which a unit, system, or individual is expected to operate and may affect performance. See also joint mission-essential tasks.