qualify
/'kwɔlifai/
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Definition
Verb (Transitive):
- To make someone eligible or competent for something: To provide someone with the necessary skills, knowledge, or official approval required for a particular role, position, or activity.
- To modify or limit a statement or description: To add conditions, restrictions, or nuances to make a statement less absolute or more precise.
- To describe or characterize something in a specific way: To attribute a particular quality or nature to someone or something.
Verb (Intransitive):
- To become eligible or meet the necessary standards: To successfully fulfill the requirements for something.
Usage
- Transitive Verb: The object is the person or thing being made eligible or the statement being modified.
- The training course will qualify you to operate the machinery.
- I should qualify my earlier praise by noting the project's high cost.
- Intransitive Verb: Often followed by the preposition "for" or "as".
- She worked hard to qualify for the national team.
- He hopes to qualify as a lawyer next year.
Examples
- Transitive Verb:
- His experience qualifies him for the leadership role.
- The scientist qualified her hypothesis with several caveats.
- How would you qualify the mood of the electorate?
- Intransitive Verb:
- Our team did not qualify for the finals.
- To qualify, you must pass a background check.
Advanced Usage
- "qualify one's remarks/statement": To add limiting conditions to what one has said to make it more accurate or less strong.
- The CEO qualified her optimistic forecast by warning of potential supply chain issues.
- In Grammar: To modify the meaning of another word (e.g., an adjective qualifies a noun).
- In the phrase "a bright light," the adjective "bright" qualifies the noun "light."
Variants and Related Words
- Qualified (Adjective): Having the necessary qualifications; limited or modified.
- A qualified engineer.
- He gave it his qualified approval.
- Qualifier (Noun): A person or team that qualifies; a word (like an adjective) that modifies another; a statement that restricts another.
- She was a qualifier for the tournament.
- "Very" is often used as an intensifying qualifier.
- Qualification (Noun): A skill or achievement that makes someone suitable; a condition that modifies a statement.
- Academic qualifications.
- I agree, with one qualification.
Synonyms
- Certify: To attest or confirm as meeting a standard.
- Eligible: Meeting the conditions to be chosen or to participate.
- Modify: To make partial or minor changes to something.
- Characterize: To describe the distinctive nature of something.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Qualify for: To meet the necessary conditions to receive or do something.
- Does this coupon qualify for the discount?
- Qualify as: To be recognized or certified as being a particular thing.
- This incident qualifies as gross negligence.
Related Idioms
- Qualified success: A success that is not complete or has significant limitations.
- The product launch was a qualified success; sales were good but below target.
Verb
- add a modifier to a constituent
- describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
- You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist
- This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life
- The contract stipulates the dates of the payments
- make fit or prepared
- Your education qualifies you for this job
- make more specific
- qualify these remarks
- pronounce fit or able
- She was qualified to run the marathon
- They nurses were qualified to administer the injections
- prove capable or fit; meet requirements