qualify
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 modify or alter the flavor or strength of: He qualified his coffee with a few drops of brandy.
Law. to certify as legally competent.
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.
Law. to perform the actions necessary to acquire legal power or capacity: By filing a bond and taking an oath he qualified as executor.
Origin of qualify
1synonym study For qualify
Other words for qualify
Other words from qualify
- qual·i·fi·ca·to·ry [kwol-uh-fi-kuh-tawr-ree, -tohr-ee], /ˈkwɒl ə fɪ kəˌtɔr ri, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- qual·i·fy·ing·ly, adverb
- mis·qual·i·fy, verb, mis·qual·i·fied, mis·qual·i·fy·ing.
- non·qual·i·fy·ing, adjective
- o·ver·qual·i·fy, verb, o·ver·qual·i·fied, o·ver·qual·i·fy·ing.
- pre·qual·i·fy, verb, pre·qual·i·fied, pre·qual·i·fy·ing.
- re·qual·i·fy, verb, re·qual·i·fied, re·qual·i·fy·ing.
- su·per·qual·i·fy, verb, su·per·qual·i·fied, su·per·qual·i·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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How to use qualify in a sentence
While they are not eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, a House staff member estimated that tens of thousands have incomes low enough that they would qualify for the stimulus aid if they were eligible.
Maryland House Democrats push to expand eligibility for covid relief | Ovetta Wiggins, Erin Cox | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe court ruled 9 to 0 that the lawsuit did not qualify for the limited exception in federal law that generally restricts American courts from hearing lawsuits against foreign governments.
Supreme Court rules unanimously for Germany in Nazi art sale case | Robert Barnes | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostA whistleblower noticed that lenders were shuffling loan financing from one bond to another to increase the volume of loans that qualified for the subsidies.
Education Dept. orders Navient to refund $22.3 million in decade-old student loan scandal | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostShe had spent hours trying to find her father an appointment, once he had qualified for a vaccine under Texas rules.
People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools — so they’re building their own | Tanya Basu | February 1, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe model currently gives Liverpool just a 4 percent chance to win the league and a 66 percent chance to qualify for the Champions League.
Liverpool Can’t Buy A Goal, And Its Title Defense Is On The Ropes | Terrence Doyle | January 27, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
Magazines are the only thing in my apartment that qualify as clutter.
Another unknown is how many from that pool will eventually qualify.
Will 5 Million Undocumented Immigrants Take Obama's Tough Love Immigration Deal? | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe cannot qualify it based on ideological notions or concepts important only at one time in history.
To qualify for special protection, Marmolejos wrote, Doyle would have to have disclosed “substantial” law-breaking by the lab.
Fired From Los Alamos for Pushing Obama's Nuclear Agenda | Center for Public Integrity | July 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTQualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.
If he fails to qualify or a vacancy occurs, the creditors have an opportunity to make another appointment.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThey had received power sufficient to qualify them to preach that the "kingdom of heaven was at hand."
The Kingdom of God, Part 1 | Orson PrattAt breakfast next morning he was induced to qualify his satisfaction to some extent—but very slightly.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesMy readers in the two previous chapters have drunk raw spirit, and must now qualify it after the Scotch fashion.
Devil-Worship in France | Arthur Edward WaiteThe personal and moral influence of Mr. O'Brien were such as to qualify him to be a leader.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
British Dictionary definitions for qualify
/ (ˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪ) /
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?
(tr) to make less strong, harsh, or violent; moderate or restrict
(tr) to modify or change the strength or flavour of
(tr) grammar another word for modify (def. 3)
(tr) to attribute a quality to; characterize
(intr) to progress to the final stages of a competition, as by winning preliminary contests
Origin of qualify
1Derived forms of qualify
- qualifiable, adjective
- qualificatory (ˈkwɒlɪfɪkətərɪ, -ˌkeɪ-), adjective
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