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Qualify   /kwˈɑləfˌaɪ/   Listen
Qualify

verb
(past & past part. qualified; pres. part. qualifying)
1.
Prove capable or fit; meet requirements.  Synonym: measure up.
2.
Pronounce fit or able.  "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
3.
Make more specific.  Synonym: restrict.
4.
Make fit or prepared.  Synonym: dispose.
5.
Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.  Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate.  "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
6.
Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of.  Synonyms: characterise, characterize.  "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
7.
Add a modifier to a constituent.  Synonym: modify.



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"Qualify" Quotes from Famous Books



... Federal Assembly (two from each island) are permitted to be in opposition, but if no party accomplishes that the second most successful party will be in opposition; in the elections of December 1996 the FNJ appeared to qualify as opposition ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... their letters in former times were simply artistic compositions; hence as indications of character they must be judged by the same canons as literary essays would be judged. In both cases the writer had full space and full time to qualify his statements of opinion; in both cases he was without excuse for throwing out anything heedlessly. Not only in Walpole’s case and Gray’s, but also in Charles Lamb’s, we apply the same rules of criticism to ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... after a moment's thought, "I'll qualify that by saying that from the evidence I have, and from what I know, I believe it to be an indisputable fact. What I do know of fact, hard, positive fact, is this:—John Brake married a Mary Bewery at the ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... drastic nature, and certainly had not improved his temper or his manners. To be stripped, bound scientifically, and "dipped" in the Club swimming-bath till, as Oakes put it, all the venom had been drenched out of him, was an experience for which only one utterly reckless would qualify twice. ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... he, who at a later period was almost disparaged as a pre-eminently intellectual actor, owed his chief successes to his performance of melodramatic parts like Rob Roy and William Tell, for which his mental as well as physical endowments were considered especially to qualify him. When at length he had reached his full maturity, he stood without a living rival as the representative of leading Shakespearian characters; and maintaining this supremacy down to his retirement from the stage, closed the line of great tragedians and left a place which after the lapse ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various


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