qualify
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qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)
- 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; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage
- (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
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to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities
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to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task
to certify or license someone for something
to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage
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Noun [edit]
qualify
- (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
