qualify
verb (used with object), qual·i·fied, qual·i·fy·ing.
verb (used without object), qual·i·fied, qual·i·fy·ing.
Origin of qualify
Synonyms for qualify
Synonym study
Related Words for qualify
enable, score, certify, train, entitle, pass, ready, meet, designate, describe, mark, authorize, fit, empower, permit, commission, sanction, suit, equip, endowExamples from the Web for qualify
Contemporary Examples of qualify
Magazines are the only thing in my apartment that qualify as clutter.
We 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.
Qualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.
True, it took America until 1990 to qualify for another World Cup, and it was 64 years before we made it past the first round.
Historical Examples of qualify
And I'll be qualify'd I never larnt such a word when I went to his school.
The Politician Out-WittedSamuel Low
Do you send him to me,—I'll qualify him for that important station.
The Politician Out-WittedSamuel Low
She tossed her head as much as to say that she was still able to qualify for the description.
Louisiana LouWilliam West Winter
So Mr. Croy showed he could qualify the humble hand that assuaged him.
The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2Henry James
I began to qualify, rather weakly; but what I said did not matter.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine