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Qualified   /kwˈɑləfˌaɪd/   Listen
Qualified

adjective
1.
Meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task.
2.
Limited or restricted; not absolute.
3.
Holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill.  Synonym: certified.  "A registered hospital"
4.
Restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man').  Synonym: restricted.
5.
Contingent on something else.  Synonyms: dependant, dependent.


Qualify

verb
(past & past part. qualified; pres. part. qualifying)
1.
Prove capable or fit; meet requirements.  Synonym: measure up.
2.
Pronounce fit or able.  "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
3.
Make more specific.  Synonym: restrict.
4.
Make fit or prepared.  Synonym: dispose.
5.
Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.  Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate.  "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
6.
Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of.  Synonyms: characterise, characterize.  "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
7.
Add a modifier to a constituent.  Synonym: modify.



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"Qualified" Quotes from Famous Books



... and, therefore, easily separable from those by whom they are possessed, should very often flatter the mind with expectations of felicity which they cannot give, raises no astonishment; but it seems rational to hope, that intellectual greatness should produce better effects; that minds qualified for great attainments should first endeavour their own benefit; and that they, who are most able to teach others the way to happiness, should with most ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
... examination by the dentist can keep the teeth in good condition, and periodic visits at least once a year to a dentist's office, not to the kind advertised by Indians where they are willing to extract teeth without pain, free, but where a regularly qualified dentist practices, should be the habit. Armenian children, who prize and covet beautiful teeth, are taught to clean their teeth always after eating, if only an apple or a piece of bread between meals, and while probably our American customs would hardly make this possible, ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden
... All these works were anonymous; but some of them were well-known to be Goldsmith's; and he gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. He was, indeed, emphatically a popular writer. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified by nature or by education. He knew nothing accurately: his reading had been desultory; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read. He had seen much of the world; but he had noticed and retained little more ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... of soldiers, the consul ordered all the citizens qualified for service to assemble at the Capitol. There the officers elected by the people chose as many men as were necessary to form the army. This was the enrolment (the Romans called it the Choice); then came ...
— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos
... at first interpreted leniently by the Pope. Galileo was allowed to reside in qualified durance in the archbishop's house at Siena. Evidently the greatest pain that he endured arose from the forced separation from that daughter, whom he had at last learned to love with an affection almost comparable with that she bore to him. She had often told him that she never had any ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball


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