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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏʹlĭ-fī

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑe/
• (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪ/, [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯]
• (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwălʹĭ-fī
• Hyphenation: qual‧i‧fy

Verb

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qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)

1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
   • 1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
   • 2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times‎[1]:But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
3. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
   • 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
   • 1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8:They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.
   • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎[2]:Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.
4. To certify or license someone for something.
5. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:O! never say that I was false of heart,Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
6. (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: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.
7. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
8. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
9. (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice. to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

Antonyms

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• disqualify
• unqualify

Derived terms

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• disqualify
• misqualify
• nonqualifying
• outqualify
• overqualify
• postqualifying
• prequalify
• qualifiability
• qualifiable
• qualified
• qualifier
• qualifying
• qualifyingly
• qualify out
• requalify
• self-qualify
• self-qualifying
• subqualify
• unqualify

Related terms

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• disqualification
• disqualified
• disqualifier
• disqualifying
• DNQ
• DQ
• DSQ
• non-qualified
• prequalification
• prequalified
• prequalifier
• prequalifying
• Q
• q
• qual
• quali
• qualie
• qualification
• qualy
• requalification
• requalified
• requalifier
• requalifying
• self-qualification
• self-qualified
• self-qualifying
• unqualified
• well-qualified

Translations

[edit] to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities

Belarusian: кваліфікаваць (kvalifikavacʹ) Bulgarian: определям (bg) (opredeljam), окачествявам (bg) (okačestvjavam) Finnish: määritellä (fi) French: caractériser (fr), qualifier (fr), définir (fr) Galician: calificar Georgian: კვალიფიცირება (ḳvalipicireba) Hungarian: jellemez (hu), leír (hu), meghatároz (hu) Occitan: qualificar (oc) Russian: квалифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kvalificírovatʹ) Spanish: calificar (es) Swahili: fuzu (sw)

to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task

Belarusian: рыхтаваць (ryxtavacʹ) Bulgarian: квалифицирам (bg) (kvalificiram) Danish: kvalificere Finnish: pätevöidä French: qualifier (fr) Georgian: მზადება (mzadeba), მომზადება (momzadeba) German: qualifizieren (de) (to make), sich qualifizieren (de) (to become) Hungarian: (to make) képesít (hu), képesítést ad, alkalmassá tesz, (to become) képesítést szerez, alkalmassá válik Maori: whakamāraurau Occitan: qualificar (oc) Russian: гото́вить (ru) (gotóvitʹ) Spanish: capacitar (es), poder obtener, tener derecho a, darle derecho a, expertizar Swahili: fuzu (sw)

to certify or license someone for something

Belarusian: атэставаць (atestavacʹ) Danish: kvalificere Finnish: pätevöidä French: qualifier (fr) German: qualifizieren (de) Hungarian: jogosít (hu), feljogosít (hu) Maori: whakamāraurau Occitan: qualificar (oc) Russian: аттестова́ть (ru) (attestovátʹ) Spanish: cualificar (es) Swahili: fuzu (sw)

to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something — see also narrow down,‎ concrete,‎ concretize

Belarusian: абмяжоўваць (abmjažówvacʹ) Bulgarian: ограничавам (bg) (ograničavam) Finnish: rajoittaa (fi) Georgian: დაზუსტება (dazusṭeba), შეზღუდვა (šezɣudva) Hungarian: árnyal (hu), módosít (hu), finomít (hu), pontosít (hu) Russian: уточня́ть (ru) (utočnjátʹ), ограни́чивать (ru) (ograníčivatʹ) Spanish: matizar (es), puntualizar (es) Swahili: fuzu (sw)

to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage

Bulgarian: класирам се (klasiram se) Czech: kvalifikovat Danish: kvalificere sig Finnish: kvalifioitua, päästä (fi) French: se qualifier (fr) Georgian: კვალიფიცირება (ḳvalipicireba) German: (please verify) sich qualifizieren (de) Hungarian: továbbjut (hu) Japanese: 勝ち上がる (かちあがる, kachi-agaru), 勝ち進む (かちすすむ, kachi-susumu) Occitan: se qualificar (oc) Portuguese: classificar (pt) (Brazil), qualificar (pt) (Portugal) Russian: квалифицироваться (ru) (kvalificirovatʹsja) Spanish: clasificar (es) (sport), cualificar (es) Swahili: fuzu (sw) Swedish: kvalificera (sv) Vietnamese: vượt qua vòng loại

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Irish: (please verify) cáiligh

Noun

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qualify

1. (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

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