qualify
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
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juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Base: quality
Affixes: -fy
Inflected forms:
form: qualifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: qualifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: qualified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: qualified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
gloss: To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
gloss: To certify or license someone for something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
gloss: To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
gloss: To throw and catch each object at least twice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
gloss: An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
pos: noun
Antonyms: disqualify
unqualify
Related words: 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
Derived words: disqualify
misqualify
nonqualifying
outqualify
overqualify
postqualifying
prequalify
qualifiability
qualifiable
qualified
qualifier
qualifying
qualifyingly
qualify out
requalify
self-qualify
self-qualifying
subqualify
unqualify
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