qualify
nounEtymology Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
1
Arts, Hobbies, Juggling, Lifestyle, Performing arts, Sports An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
qualify
verbUK /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ · US /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
10 senses
- 1To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- 2To successfully fall under some category or description…
- 3To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
- 4To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- 5To certify or license someone for something.
- 6To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something…
- 7To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- 8To compete successfully in some stage of a competition…
- 9To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- 10To throw and catch each object at least twice.
1
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
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.1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:
- But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times:
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.1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8:
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.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:
5
To certify or license someone for something.
6
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 qualify1609, 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:
7
Archaic 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, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
8
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
9
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
10
Arts, Hobbies, Juggling, Lifestyle, Performing arts, Sports To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
- Antonyms
- disqualify, unqualify
- Derived terms
- disqualify, misqualify, nonqualifying, outqualify, overqualify, postqualifying, prequalify, qualifiability, qualifiable, qualified, qualifier, qualifying, qualifyingly, qualify out, requalify, self-qualify, self-qualifying, subqualify, unqualify
- Related terms
28 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