What's the difference between condition and kilter?
Condition
Definition:
(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.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
(n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
(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.) 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.
(v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
(v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
(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 contract; to stipulate; to agree.
(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.
(n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(n.) train; acclimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(3) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(6) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(7) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
(8) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(9) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(10) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(11) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(13) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(14) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(15) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(16) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(17) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(18) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(19) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(20) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
Kilter
Definition:
(n.) See Kelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12.43pm BST 23rd over: Sri Lanka 58-2 (Jayawardene 1, Sangakkara 7) Plunkett sends down another six balls of lively pace at Mahela Jayawardene, but this time his radar is a little out-of-kilter.
(2) If the result on 6 May is shockingly out of kilter with public wishes, then a second general election should be held as soon as a new voting system is in place.
(3) [I was] over-thinking food choices,” she says, “and trying to get more protein, more energy density, the correct macro-nutrient ratios… after which I got so exhausted I just chose nothing because it was easier than feeling guilty about the ‘wrong’ choice.” She continues: “The current obsession with health, image and fitness is way out of kilter [with] self-care.” It raises the question: in our seemingly flaxseed and clean eating-obsessed Instagram culture, just how many women are hiding an eating disorder behind a healthy lifestyle obsession?
(4) The executive can't be allowed to go without any checks and balances, that's perfectly proper, but the check and balance we have got at the moment seems to have got out of kilter."
(5) Bristol, though, has a reputation for slightly off-kilter stuff.
(6) But a combination of factors has sent the balance out of kilter.
(7) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
(8) However, even though that was out of kilter with some – the Guardian marginally – the element of doubt might not be sufficient to fuel a rematch.
(9) But also a Spike Jonze love story, meaning it's set in a very near, slightly off-kilter future, in a squeaky-clean but still recognisable Los Angeles (complete with an unlikely fully functional public-transit system), which is augmented with shots filmed in other Pacific-rim capitals such as Shanghai and Tokyo.
(10) There is mounting anger at Britain's political and economic elite following the parliamentary expenses scandal, alongside bankers' bonuses out of kilter with any reasonable notion of justified reward.
(11) He would see his best way of managing the politics of this issue, given his own position is very much out of kilter with the views of the public, is to wait until the “no” position is strengthened, then allow the debate and vote to proceed on the basis that it will fail, this time at least.
(12) But Salmond says if he were first minister of Wales, where unemployment is out of kilter with unemployment in the rest of the UK, he might be worried about a currency union.
(13) It has also launched an attack on wages for those at the bottom of the scale, with the national minimum wage out of kilter with living costs, proposals to allow regional variations in the minimum wage that would cut it further, and the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board , which set living standards for many rural workers in the lowest paid jobs.
(14) He wrote in an introduction to the Radio Centre document: "The balanced radio industry gets out of kilter when public and commercial services sound too similar, or when BBC stations are seen to prioritise popularity over quality, and delivery of public purposes."
(15) The centre-forward was a distant second-best in the physical battle with Dunne while his shooting was off-kilter.
(16) Last week CBI boss Richard Lambert warned that boardroom pay was getting so out of kilter with average wages that bosses risked being regarded as "aliens".
(17) Good MPs say they need some casework, to see at first hand where government departments are failing, but the balance now is out of kilter.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(19) He added: "President Zuma should pay back every rand of public money improperly spent on making him live like the monarchy he fancies himself to be, which is out of kilter with the behaviour expected to the head of government in a constitutional democracy accountable to the public."
(20) He added that "something is dangerously out of kilter" when MPs such as Adam Price on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee confess they have been "held back" from probing into News Corporation's affairs because of "fear of what that company might do to them" – or when former employees are "too frightened to speak publicly about what they know" .