QUALIFYING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of qualifying in English qualifyingadjective   sports   specialized uk /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈkwɑː.lə.faɪ.ɪŋ/

qualifying adjective (SPORT)

Add to word list Add to word list relating to or involving a competition or match that you must win or in which you must achieve a particular score, in order to be allowed to enter the next stage of a sports event: qualifying game Northern Ireland play Lithuania in a World Cup qualifying game this afternoon.qualifying event She was brought into the Olympic training squad after her performance at the Olympic qualifying event in Madrid. See also qualifying tournament

• Kelly has been appointed to referee the World Cup qualifying match between Azerbaijan and Germany on 12 August.
• Canada lost in the qualifying round, and so the US got into the quarter finals.

Competitions, & parts of competitions

• All-Ireland
• bathing beauty
• be a game of two halves idiom
• beauty contest
• beauty pageant
• bout
• bowl
• horse show
• interleague
• Isthmian League
• jayvee
• keirin
• local derby
• prep
• time trialling
• tournament
• tournament bracket
• tourney
• triple crown
• ultra

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qualifying adjective (OF STATEMENT)

containing extra information or detail that makes something less general or less strong: She said that the omission of the qualifying statement had made the threat appear greater than it really was. You should always read the qualifying paragraphs that are hidden below the dramatic headlines.

• This document should be a simple statement of the principles, without the current list of qualifying statements and exceptions.

Elaborating, specifying and simplifying

• abstract
• anti-reductionism
• anti-reductionist
• broad brush
• broaden
• enlarge on/upon something phrasal verb
• expand
• expand on something phrasal verb
• expansively
• expansiveness
• over-elaboration
• overgeneralization
• overgeneralize
• oversimplification
• oversimplify
• simplify
• spec
• specification
• specificity
• specify

See more results » qualifyingnoun [ S ]   sports   specialized uk /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈkwɑː.lə.faɪ.ɪŋ/ a competition, event, or match that you must win or in which you must achieve a particular score, in order to be allowed to enter the next stage of a sports event: It will be interesting to see how they get on when final qualifying for the Open gets under way this morning. Her longest jump in qualifying didn't count because of a foul.

• He just just missed out on making the team, finishing third in qualifying.
• Driving a perfect lap in qualifying will be very difficult.
• Each driver was limited to just 15 laps during qualifying.

Competitions, & parts of competitions

• All-Ireland
• bathing beauty
• be a game of two halves idiom
• beauty contest
• beauty pageant
• bout
• bowl
• horse show
• interleague
• Isthmian League
• jayvee
• keirin
• local derby
• prep
• time trialling
• tournament
• tournament bracket
• tourney
• triple crown
• ultra

See more results » (Definition of qualifying from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of qualifying

qualifying The input to this stage is, by assumption, a natural language question, though this needs qualifying in several ways. From the Cambridge English Corpus To avoid interference with acute-phase treatments, patients were enrolled after 15 days from onset of the qualifying event. From the Cambridge English Corpus Possibly those qualifying for these packages had already left the organisation prior to the 12-month accounting period. From the Cambridge English Corpus Without an experience of willing, even actions that look entirely voluntary from the outside still fall short of qualifying as truly willed. From the Cambridge English Corpus This data was used as a basis for inclusion and to assess the qualifying and confounding variables, as well as the predictor variables of interest. From the Cambridge English Corpus Qualifying cerebral infarctions were classified according to neuroimaging findings into lacunar (small-vessel), non-lacunar (large-vessel), and brainstem infarcts. From the Cambridge English Corpus Qualifying this stand would exceed the scope of this paper. From the Cambridge English Corpus This ratio provides a better means of qualifying each arcade, and is a direct measure of physical internal/external continuity. From the Cambridge English Corpus They indicated that industrialization is only a qualifying attribute. From the Cambridge English Corpus Those qualifying were informed about the study and asked to volunteer. From the Cambridge English Corpus Any students who suggested qualifying these attributes would be told they had changed the topic. From the Cambridge English Corpus This collection should add to the former, but it comes perilously close to qualifying for the latter as well. From the Cambridge English Corpus A few qualifying remarks are important in this regard. From the Cambridge English Corpus The latter finding may be explained by disability level qualifying people with dementia for some services. From the Cambridge English Corpus Alternatively, qualifying remarks may have been excised by the propagandist to maintain the shock value of the opening sentence. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of qualifying?

Translations of qualifying

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• English   
  • Adjective 
    • qualifying (SPORT)
    • qualifying (OF STATEMENT)
  Noun
• English   
  • Verb 
    • qualify (FINISH TRAINING)
    • qualify (HAVE RIGHT)
    • qualify (GET INTO COMPETITION)
    • qualify (LIMIT)
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