Qualify Definition
kwŏlə-fī
qualified, qualifies, qualifying
verb
qualified, qualifies, qualifying
To describe by giving the qualities or characteristics of.
Webster's New World
To make fit for an office, occupation, exercise of a right, etc.
Webster's New World
To make legally capable; give a specific right to; license.
Webster's New World
To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics.
Do the student's ongoing difficulties in class qualify his situation as a medical problem?
American Heritage
To be or become qualified, as by meeting requirements.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- disqualify
- be unprepositionared
- be lenient
- allow
- be unsuited
- become unfit
- fail
noun
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
Wiktionary
Origin of Qualify
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From French qualifier (from Old French) and from Middle English qualifien to specify the time and place of a document's execution both from Medieval Latin quālificāre to attribute a quality to Latin quālis of such a kind quality Latin -ficāre -fy
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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