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qualifying

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of qualify

  2. verbal noun of qualify

  3. A qualification or added condition.

    • No expostulations! No buts, girl! No qualifyings, I will be obeyed, I tell you; and chearfully too!
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.

      • Despite possible lore among graduate students to the contrary, most faculty members dread having to fail a student in the qualifyings.

    2. A preliminary competition in which successful competitors gain entry into, and/or a…

      A preliminary competition in which successful competitors gain entry into, and/or a favourable starting position in, a subsequent competition.

      • McLaren driver Hamilton was never in contention after making a disastrous mistake to crash out in qualifying and then starting at the back of the grid after a penalty for changing his gearbox.
      • Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.

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A definitional loop anchored at qualifying. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at qualifying. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at qualifying

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA