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Qualify   /kwˈɑləfˌaɪ/   Listen
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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"Qualify" Quotes from Famous Books



... domestic servants, clerks, commercial agents, brokers and employees, water-carriers, porters, waggoners and carmen, provision dealers, cutters of wood for fuel, and persons engaged in similar occupations. The nature of their pursuits does not qualify them to be enrolled in any of the four classes, yet they are a body of people who, as your Excellency will admit, deserve to be looked upon with an eye of mercy for two reasons. First, because they are continually exerting themselves by their incessant labours to maintain themselves and their ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore

... would begin at L150 a year, but we should improve it if you turned out well. And you would, of course, occupy the Company's house at Liverpool. We should not ask for a premium in your case, but you would have to put L50 into the shares of the Corporation to qualify you, and of course you would get interest on that. Now," said he, as Reginald began to speak, "don't be in a hurry. Take your time and think it well over. If you say 'Yes,' you may consider the thing settled, and if ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... the enchanted landscape: all have their part in the effect and on the memory, 'tous vous tapent sur la tete'; and yet when you have enumerated all, you have gone no nearer to explain or even to qualify the delicate exhilaration that you feel—delicate, you may say, and yet excessive, greater than can be said in prose, almost greater than an invalid can bear. There is a certain wine of France known in England in some gaseous disguise, but when drunk in the land of its nativity still as a ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson

... him a moment, and then, coloring a little, looked straight out of the window; whereupon Bernard remembered that these were just the terms in which, at Baden, after his companion's absence, he had attempted to qualify Angela Vivian. Gordon was conscious—he was conscious of ...
— Confidence • Henry James

... or to listen to his arguments. She did both. She taxed him with insolence in daring to address her so roundly, and then finding he was speaking even in 'amaritudine animae' and out of a clear conscience, she became calm again, and intimated a disposition to qualify her ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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