qualify
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/
The English word “qualify” has 11 meanings listed here.
verb
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
- To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
noun
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
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