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Qualify
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Qualify has 7 senses
- qualify(v = verb.stative) measure up - prove capable or fit; meet requirements; Array is one way to answer, do, serve, suffice
- qualify(v = verb.communication) Array - pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" is one way to judge, label, pronounce
- qualify(v = verb.change) restrict - make more specific; "qualify these remarks" is one way to modify
- qualify(v = verb.change) dispose - make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" is one way to groom, prepare, train
- qualify(v = verb.communication) condition, specify, stipulate - specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" is one way to contract, undertake
- qualify(v = verb.communication) characterise, characterize - describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" is one way to remember, think of
- qualify(v = verb.change) modify - add a modifier to a constituent; Array is one way to add
Derived forms noun qualification1, noun qualifier1, noun qualifying2, noun quality2, noun quality5
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Antonym: disqualify
Derived forms noun qualification1, noun quality2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Derived forms noun qualification2, noun qualification3, noun quality3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym: disqualify
Derived form noun quality2
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Derived form noun qualification1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derived forms noun quality1, noun quality3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun qualifier2, noun qualifying1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Qualify, v. t. [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L. qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Quality, and -Fy.].
- To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. [1913 Webster]"He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession." [1913 Webster]
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. [1913 Webster]"It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. " [1913 Webster]
- To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. [1913 Webster]"I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage." [1913 Webster] - To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [1913 Webster]"In short space he has them qualified." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.
Qualify, v. i.
- To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment. [1913 Webster]
- To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Qualify, v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. make competent or fit for a position or purpose.
2 tr. make legally entitled.
3 intr. (foll. by for) (of a person) satisfy the conditions or requirements (for a position, award, competition, etc.).
4 tr. add reservations to; modify or make less absolute (a statement or assertion).
5 tr. Gram. (of a word, esp. an adjective) attribute a quality to another word, esp. a noun.
6 tr. moderate, mitigate; make less severe or extreme.
7 tr. alter the strength or flavour of.
8 tr. (foll. by as) attribute a specified quality to, describe as (the idea was qualified as absurd).
9 tr. (as qualifying adj.) serving to determine those that qualify (qualifying examination).
1 tr. make competent or fit for a position or purpose.
2 tr. make legally entitled.
3 intr. (foll. by for) (of a person) satisfy the conditions or requirements (for a position, award, competition, etc.).
4 tr. add reservations to; modify or make less absolute (a statement or assertion).
5 tr. Gram. (of a word, esp. an adjective) attribute a quality to another word, esp. a noun.
6 tr. moderate, mitigate; make less severe or extreme.
7 tr. alter the strength or flavour of.
8 tr. (foll. by as) attribute a specified quality to, describe as (the idea was qualified as absurd).
9 tr. (as qualifying adj.) serving to determine those that qualify (qualifying examination).
Derivative
qualifiable adj. qualifier n.
Etymology
F qualifier f. med.L qualificare f. L qualis such as
THESAURUS
Qualify
abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter, ameliorate, answer, ascribe, assign, assuage, attribute, attune, authorize, avail, be OK, be blooded, be equal to, be successful, bear, better, bound, box, box in, box up, break up, capacitate, catch on, certify, change, check out, circumscribe, click, come off, condition, confine, connect, contain, convert, copyright, cramp, deform, denature, diminish, discipline, distinguish, diversify, do, do it, do the job, draw the line, enable, equip, farewell, fill the bill, fit, fit out, fulfill, furnish, get by, go, go around, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, hack it, have the qualifications, hedge, hedge about, hem, hem in, hold, improve, impute, individualize, individuate, just do, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, leaven, limit, localize, make a hit, make reservations, make the grade, mark, measure up, meet, meet requirements, meet with success, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, narrow, overthrow, palliate, pass, pass muster, patent, predicate, prepare, prevail, prosper, put in trim, put in tune, re-create, reach, ready, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, refit, reform, register, regulate by, relate, remake, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, satisfy, scant, season, serve, serve the purpose, set conditions, set limits, set terms, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, signalize, soften, specialize, specifically provide, stand, stand up, stint, stipulate, stipulate for, straiten, stretch, subvert, succeed, suffice, suit, take, take it, temper, tighten, tune, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work, work a change, work well, work wonders, worsenROGET THESAURUS
Qualify
Change
VB change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.Qualification
VB qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper, waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain), equivocate (sophistry), depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect), allow for, make allowance for, admit exceptions, take into account, modulate, moderate, temper, season, leaven, take exception.Negation
VB deny, contradict, contravene, controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head, disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow, recant, revoke, dispute, impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon, bring in question, call in question, give the lie in his throat, give one the lie in his throat, deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely, give the lie to, belie, repudiate, set aside, ignore, rebut, qualify, refuse, recuse.Teaching
VB teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.
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