qualifying

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.

to be fitted or competent for something.

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

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

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

Military. to pass a practical test in gunnery.