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qualify

[kwol-uh-fahy]

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verb (used with object)

to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.

to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive: to qualify an endorsement.

Grammar. to modify.

to make less violent, severe, or unpleasant; moderate; mitigate.

to attribute some quality or qualities to; characterize, call, or name: She cannot qualify his attitude as either rational or irrational.

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to modify or alter the flavor or strength of: He qualified his coffee with a few drops of brandy.

Law. to certify as legally competent.

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verb (used without object)

to be fitted or competent for something.

to get authority, license, power, etc., as by fulfilling required conditions, taking an oath, etc.

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Sports. to demonstrate the required ability in an initial or preliminary contest: He qualified in the trials.

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to fire a rifle or pistol on a target range for a score high enough to achieve a rating of marksman, sharpshooter, or expert.

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Military. to pass a practical test in gunnery.

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Law. to perform the actions necessary to acquire legal power or capacity: By filing a bond and taking an oath he qualified as executor.

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Origin:
1525–35; < Medieval Latin quālificāre, equivalent to Latin quāl(is) of what sort + -ificāre -ify

Related forms

qual·i·fi·ca·to·ry

[kwol-uh-fi-kuh-tawr-ree, -tohr-ee] , adjective

qual·i·fy·ing·ly, adverb

mis·qual·i·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

non·qual·i·fy·ing, adjective

o·ver·qual·i·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

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pre·qual·i·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

re·qual·i·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

su·per·qual·i·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

un·qual·i·fy·ing, adjective

un·qual·i·fy·ing·ly, adverb

un·re·qual·i·fied, adjective

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Synonyms
1. fit, suit, adapt, prepare, equip. 2. narrow, restrict. See modify. 4. meliorate, soften, temper, reduce, diminish. 5. designate, label.

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The nine group winners and the best second-place team qualify automatically.

The only caveat is that any financial aid you would otherwise qualify for will be reduced by the amount of the benefit.

Firms that qualify for the index tend to be under the government's cosh.

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The nine group winners and the best second-place team qualify automatically.

The only caveat is that any financial aid you would otherwise qualify for will be reduced by the amount of the benefit.

Firms that qualify for the index tend to be under the government's cosh.

Please ask your academic advisor to verify that this internship would qualify for credit hours.

As someone pointed out they don't really qualify as moons.

Here are three ideas-one to skewer on each tine of a pitchfork-that might qualify as fiendish food, be it in name or in execution.

Foliage is showy enough to qualify this plant for a display spot in the garden.

Since these kids never fully lose contact with reality, they don't qualify for any of the existing psychotic disorders.

But if you paid other eligible expenses, you may use them to qualify for another benefit for which you are eligible.

Students who qualify for the reduced rate would still receive need-based aid, if eligible.

Meanwhile, the painful slog to qualify for the single currency is nearly over.

Please ask your academic adviser to verify that this internship would qualify for credit hours.

It is up in the air whether research on cells created this way qualify for federal funding under current restrictions.

Groups pushing the autism/vaccine link have taken advantage of the fact that scientists will qualify their statements for years.

F oliage is showy enough to qualify this plant for a display spot in the garden.

But if personhood is defined more broadly, chimpanzees may well qualify.

Greater outreach leads to more who qualify for special kindergarten programs, though the gaps remain.

There are two ways to qualify for the exclusion of foreign-earned income.

Swap dealers used to be able to qualify for exemptions to hedge their risk after they wrote a swap.

Modifying, enhancing or altering a third party's pre-existing work does not qualify as entrant's original creation.

Some of the newfound objects may be large enough to qualify as dwarf planets.

It was a tasty drink, but in no way does a martini qualify as health food.

Sigma announced a telephoto lens that seems to qualify as the biggest ever in several regards.

Then call the program officer or appropriate grant representative to confirm that you and your project qualify.

Seismic vibrations do not qualify as signals unless they are being received and understood.

Two: squash needs to have a use, cause it does not qualify as food.

When are people going to wake up and realize that skin color does not qualify people for a job.

He contends that the workers were treated as freelancers even though they qualify as employees under the law.

However, those who fail to qualify are actually offered free remedial instruction to try and qualify in subsequent terms.

Only a handful of countries in the region are poor enough to qualify for the bank's soft loans and handouts.

The sheer wildness of the place, the profusion of seabirds, and its unrelenting beauty would qualify the place easily.

And yet it's much too shallow to qualify as an opinion piece or editorial.

To qualify for the trial, patients must have early-stage lung cancer and be unable to undergo surgery.

Violent riots and trouble-making would certainly appear to qualify.

They may qualify as distinct subspecies and possibly separate species.

It cuts utility bills immediately, yet requires neither an upfront payment nor an ability to qualify for credit.

Without accreditation, the college will not qualify to receive federal student aid, a potential financial death blow.

Cisneros loosened mortgage restrictions so first-time buyers could qualify for.

Arguably, it is harder to win: to qualify you must.

Understandably, the subject of progress is difficult to broach or even qualify in any real way.

Interest rates are falling, but many potential borrowers may not qualify for the best rates.

For something to qualify as a commodity, both buyer and seller must agree on its quality.

These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional.

Each state has its own rules about medicaid, but in general low income people do qualify for it.

To qualify for the contest, comment below on the following question:.

Only people without jobs who are actively looking for work qualify as unemployed.

These findings qualify the common view that economic growth unleashes myriad discontents.

They qualify as normal because they are time limited functional reactions to threats to survival.

In addition, filming a movie in a theater without authorization would immediately qualify as a federal offense.

Not only is it starting to get easier to qualify for jumbo mortgages but rates are also coming down.

Students need to be qualify first to use technology, and have the right motivation to do so.

Just because something did or did not happen to you does not qualify you as a valid scientific sample.

But more travelers mean more people who don't qualify to donate.

Many of these kids would easily qualify for transfer programs.

Each child must have his/her own postcard to qualify for a free ticket.

Also, taking the counter point of an argument does not qualify you as a free thinker.

Having had fetal cells implanted in my spinal cord would not qualify as normal.

Companies often insist on credit so that interns might legally qualify as.

Furthermore, he ruled that the university's cheerleading did not qualify as a varsity sport.

Some drugmakers have been offering free and reduced-rate prescriptions for decades to those who qualify based on financial need.

And it's not quite skinny or svelte enough to qualify as a thin and light.

Second, only commercial breeders have a big enough operation to qualify for any kind of business expenses.

Indeed, it doesn't qualify as a scientific question at all.

His casting of his sites as educational resources may qualify him as using the images legally.

For something to qualify as a story, she believed, it must be about white foreigners.

People who might have stopped looking for work keep at it to qualify for benefits.

Using this definition, integrated circuits will qualify as nanostructures shortly after the turn of the century.

Strength and competence blends with beauty to qualify the included heroines.

To keep outsiders at bay, regional trade deals have complicated rules about the origin of goods that qualify for lower tariffs.

We are past the day when one or two virtuous qualities of a product qualify it as green.

The material in these types of videos do not qualify as an official message from al-Qaeda or any other group.

Your situation does not qualify as job hopping for me.

Companies that employ them can also qualify for loans and earn tax breaks.

Stoopi ng down to the level of name calling and making disparaging remarks hardly qualify the comments as intellectual.

Yet, those who enter this plan would tend to have lower income so would naturally qualify for a much lower payment.

Everyday life is already made harder for those who do not qualify for a credit card.

Even in patients who qualify for a corneal transplant, the body occasionally rejects the foreign tissue.

Sorry, but trolling the web and blogging from your darkened study doesn't qualify as on-the-job training.

If you have a contract specifying a begin date and an end date, that may qualify.

EnergyStar roofs, which can qualify for tax credits, are reflective.

Migraines and vestibular problems did not qualify me as disabled in my state.

Twenty-five percent of these homes are reserved for families that qualify for affordable housing programs.

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World English Dictionary

qualify (ˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪ)

—vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
1.	to provide or be provided with the abilities or attributes necessary for a task, office, duty, etc: his degree qualifies him for the job; he qualifies for the job, but would he do it well?
2.	(tr) to make less strong, harsh, or violent; moderate or restrict
3.	(tr) to modify or change the strength or flavour of
4.	(tr) grammar another word for modify
5.	(tr) to attribute a quality to; characterize
6.	(intr) to progress to the final stages of a competition, as by winning preliminary contests

[C16: from Old French qualifier, from Medieval Latin quālificāre to characterize, from Latin quālis of what kind + facere to make]

'qualifiable

—*adj*

qualificatory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

qualify

1465, "to invest with a quality," from M.L. qualificare "attribute a quality to," from L. qualis "of what sort" + facere "to make" (see factitious). Sense of "be fit for a job" first appeared 1588. Qualification in the sense of "limitation, restriction" is from 1543.

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"History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

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