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

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noun

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

Wiktionary

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Origin of Qualify

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