Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
qualify en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- kwŏlʹĭ-fī (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- kwălʹĭ-fī (obsolete)
- /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/ (obsolete)
- /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
- [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯] (New-Zealand)
- /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
- /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/ (Australia)
- /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
- kwŏʹlĭ-fī (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Meanings
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An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
qualify en · VERB
Pronunciation
- kwŏlʹĭ-fī (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- kwălʹĭ-fī (obsolete)
- /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/ (obsolete)
- /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
- [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯] (New-Zealand)
- /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
- /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/ (Australia)
- /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
- kwŏʹlĭ-fī (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Meanings
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(transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
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(intransitive) 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:
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(transitive) 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:
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(intransitive, reflexive) 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:
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(transitive) To certify or license someone for something.
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(transitive) 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, 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:
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(archaic, transitive) 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:
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(intransitive) To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
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(transitive) 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:
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(transitive) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
Forms
Antonyms
unqualify · disqualify
Deriveds
qualifiability · misqualify · self-qualify · qualifier · qualifiable · requalify · unqualify · prequalify · nonqualifying · disqualify · qualify out · qualifying · qualified · subqualify · outqualify · postqualifying · self-qualifying · overqualify · qualifyingly
Relateds
prequalification · non-qualified · q · DSQ · self-qualification · qualy · unqualified · DQ · self-qualifying · disqualifying · requalifying · disqualified · well-qualified · qualification · disqualification · requalifier · requalified · qualie · requalification · self-qualified · prequalifying · DNQ · Q · prequalifier · quali · qual · prequalified · disqualifier
Translations (84)
fr qualifier (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · sv kvalificera (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · es puntualizar (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · ru квалифици́ровать (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · de sich qualifizieren (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · hu képesítést ad (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · bg окачествявам (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · ka კვალიფიცირება (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · es clasificar (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu jellemez (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · oc qualificar (to certify or license someone for something) · bg ограничавам (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · hu leír (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · oc se qualificar (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu képesítést szerez (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · es capacitar (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · de qualifizieren (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · da kvalificere sig (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · ka კვალიფიცირება (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · hu jogosít (to certify or license someone for something) · bg определям (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · fi rajoittaa (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · hu módosít (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · hu alkalmassá válik (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · fi pätevöidä (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · fi kvalifioitua (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · ru квалифицироваться (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · fr qualifier (to certify or license someone for something) · cs kvalifikovat (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · bg квалифицирам (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · ka მზადება (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · sw fuzu (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · pt classificar (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu árnyal (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · es acotar (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · ru гото́вить (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · ka შეზღუდვა (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · es calificar (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · pt qualificar (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu meghatároz (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · ka დაზუსტება (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · sw fuzu (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · hu feljogosít (to certify or license someone for something) · mi whakamāraurau (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · ru аттестова́ть (to certify or license someone for something) · da kvalificere (to certify or license someone for something) · be атэставаць (to certify or license someone for something) · hu finomít (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · be кваліфікаваць (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · ja 勝ち進む (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · es poder obtener (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · be абмяжоўваць (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · hu képesít (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · sw fuzu (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · es expertizar (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · sw fuzu (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu pontosít (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · bg класирам се (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · ka მომზადება (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · ja 勝ち上がる (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · fr définir (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · fr se qualifier (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · sw fuzu (to certify or license someone for something) · fr qualifier (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · de qualifizieren (to certify or license someone for something) · ru уточня́ть (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · oc qualificar (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · da kvalificere (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · fr caractériser (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · fi pätevöidä (to certify or license someone for something) · es tener derecho a (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · gl calificar (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · be рыхтаваць (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · vi vượt qua vòng loại (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · fi päästä (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · es cualificar (to certify or license someone for something) · ru ограни́чивать (to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something) · fi määritellä (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · es darle derecho a (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · oc qualificar (to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities) · mi whakamāraurau (to certify or license someone for something) · hu továbbjut (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) · hu alkalmassá tesz (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) · es cualificar (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage)