Sekirov Dictionary

qualify

UK /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/US /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/

verb 10
noun 1
forms 6
phrases 1

verb10

To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
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[with oneself] 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. — 1856
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
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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. — 1999
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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 — 1609
To certify or license someone for something.
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
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To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound. — 1650
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To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
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(no longer used) 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. — 1590

noun1

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

forms

qualified · qualifying · qualifies · qualifieth · qualifys · qualifiest

Phrases with qualify

qualify out
To be removed from a competition by not qualifying.

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