Make sure you know the context when using the word qualify. In one sense, it means to be right for, to measure up. In another sense, though, qualify means to change something slightly, to limit it or add a condition to it.
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.
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add a modifier to a constituent
Verb
make more specific; "qualify these remarks"
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make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"
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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"
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pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
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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"
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prove capable or fit; meet requirements
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to
regulate.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to
reduce the strength of, as liquors.
v. t.
To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.
v. i.
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office
or employment.
v. i.
To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath,
or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
Qualify
He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.2.
It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound.3.
I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage.5.
In short space he has them qualified.
Qualify
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.
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
Usage Examples
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
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Other Usage ExamplesWell, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
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