AIR-CONDITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air-condition mean? 

• AIR-CONDITION (verb)
  The verb AIR-CONDITION has 2 senses:

1. control the humidity and temperature of

2. equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature

  Familiarity information: AIR-CONDITION used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR-CONDITION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they air-condition    ... he / she / it air-conditions   
Past simple: air-conditioned   
Past participle: air-conditioned   
-ing form: air-conditioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Control the humidity and temperature of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The room was cool because it had been air-conditioned

Hypernyms (to "air-condition" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

air conditioner; air conditioning (a system that keeps air cool and dry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

air-condition; air-cool

Context example:

Our house is not air-conditioned

Hypernyms (to "air-condition" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

air conditioner; air conditioning (a system that keeps air cool and dry)

 Context examples 

The students who didn’t have air-conditioning performed significantly worse on the basic cognitive tests.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The mist may come from hot tubs, showers, or air-conditioning units for large buildings.

(Legionnaires' Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

And while air-conditioned rooms can hold higher levels of carbon dioxide, which can have a negative impact on cognition, the students slept better in a cooler room.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

New research shows that heat can affect even healthy young adults intellectually, with worse cognitive performance observed in students who slept in a non-air-conditioned room during a heat wave.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The indoor temperature of the non-air-conditioned dorm averaged 26.3 C (79.3 F) compared with 21.4 C (70.5 F) in the dorm with air-conditioning.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Researchers from Harvard University recruited 24 students who slept with air-conditioning and 20 who slept in rooms without AC before, during and after a Boston-area heat wave.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

We found very significant effect of detrimental cognitive function among those students that didn't have air-conditioning during this heat wave period, said lead author Jose Guillermo Cedeno Laurent of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)