qualify

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

2. 2

   To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To become competent or eligible for some position or task.

      • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
   2. 5

      To certify or license someone for something.

   3. 6

      To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something

      To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

      • O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
   4. 7

      To mitigate, alleviate (something)

      To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

      • 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.
   5. 8

      To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next…

      To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

   6. 9

      To give individual quality to

      To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

      • It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
   7. 10

      To throw and catch each object at least twice.

      • to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
   8. 11

      An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

The neighborhood

• antonymdisqualify
• antonymunqualify
• neighbordisqualification
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• neighborDNQ
• neighborDQ
• neighborDSQ
• neighbornon-qualified
• neighborprequalification
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