# qualify
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality +‎ -fy.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏʹlĭ-fī
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* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑɪ/, /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.fɑɪ/
* (obsolete) IPA: /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwălʹĭ-fī
* Hyphenation: qual‧i‧fy

### Verb

qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)
* To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
** 1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
** 2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times‎:But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
* To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
** 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
** 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎:Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.
* To certify or license someone for something.
* To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
* (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
* To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
* To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
** 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
* (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
    to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

#### Antonyms

* disqualify
* unqualify

#### Derived terms

* disqualify
* outqualify
* prequalify
* qualified
* qualifier
* qualifying
* qualify out
* requalify
* self-qualify
* unqualify

#### Related terms

* disqualification
* disqualified
* disqualifier
* disqualifying
* DNQ
* DQ
* DSQ
* non-qualified
* prequalification
* prequalified
* prequalifier
* prequalifying
* Q
* q
* qual
* quali
* qualie
* qualification
* qualy
* requalification
* requalified
* requalifier
* requalifying
* self-qualification
* self-qualified
* self-qualifying
* unqualified
* well-qualified

#### Translations

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### Noun

qualify
* (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.