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Qualify

//ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ// noun, verb

Noun

Verb

1
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2
add a modifier to a constituent wordnet
3
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."
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make more specific wordnet
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To make someone, or 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."

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make fit or prepared wordnet
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To certify or license someone for something.
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describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of wordnet
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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"
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pronounce fit or able wordnet
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To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable. archaic
"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."
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specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement wordnet
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To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
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prove capable or fit; meet requirements wordnet
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To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
"It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound."
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To throw and catch each object at least twice.
"to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches"

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.

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