Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchqualifier(“to qualify”). Equivalent toquality +-fy.
qualify (third-person singular simple presentqualifies,present participlequalifying,simple past and past participlequalified)
- Todescribe orcharacterize something bylisting itsqualities.
1999, Matthew C. Bagger,Religious Experience, Justification, and History,→ISBN, page62:Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true beliefqualifies as knowledge.
2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, inThe New York Times[1]:But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probablyqualify as a major capital improvement.
- To make someone, or to becomecompetent oreligible for someposition ortask.
1856 December,[Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, inT[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor,The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London:Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published1871,→OCLC:He hadqualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, inBBC[2]:Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.
- Tocertify orlicense someone for something.
- Tomodify,limit,restrict ormoderate something; especially to addconditions orrequirements for anassertion to be true.
- (now rare) Tomitigate,alleviate (something); to make lessdisagreeable.
1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has themqualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
- Tocompetesuccessfully in some stage of acompetition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
toqualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities
to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task
to certify or license someone for something
to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something
to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage
Translations to be checked
qualify
- (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
