Qualify

/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. (intransitive) To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
3. (transitive) To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
4. (intransitive or reflexive) To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
5. (transitive) To certify or license someone for something.
6. (transitive) To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
7. (transitive, now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
8. (intransitive) To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

Example Sentences

Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.

But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.

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.

He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.

O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify

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.

It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.

to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

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Word Forms

• qualifies
• qualifying
• qualified

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