qualify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/
enpr: kwŏlʹĭ-fī
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/
enpr: kwŏʹlĭ-fī
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯]
ipa: /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/
enpr: kwălʹĭ-fī
Forms: form: qualifies
form: qualifying
form: qualified
form: qualified
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
examples: text: Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
ref: 1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:
text: But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
ref: 2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
examples: text: He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
ref: 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:
text: They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.
ref: 1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8:
text: Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
glosses: To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
glosses: To certify or license someone for something.
examples: text: O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
ref: 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:
glosses: To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
glosses: To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
examples: text: It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
examples: text: to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: To throw and catch each object at least twice.
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