'Qualify' definitions:
Definition of 'qualify'
(from WordNet)
verb
Prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: qualify, measure up]
verb
Pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" [ant: disqualify]
verb
Make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: qualify, restrict]
verb
Make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify, dispose] [ant: disqualify, indispose, unfit]
verb
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" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify]
verb
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" [syn: qualify, characterize, characterise]
verb
Add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify, qualify]
Definition of 'Qualify'
From: GCIDE
- Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Qualified; p. pr. & vb. n. Qualifying.] [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L. qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Quality, and -Fy.]
- 1. To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. [1913 Webster]
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. [1913 Webster]
- It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. [1913 Webster]
- I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- In short space he has them qualified. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Qualify'
From: GCIDE
- Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, v. i.
- 1. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'qualify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- answer,
- ascribe,
- assign,
- assuage,
- attribute,
- attune,
- authorize,
- avail,
- be blooded,
- be equal to,
- be OK,
- be successful,
- bear,
- better,
- bound,
- box,
- box in,
- box up,
- break up,
- capacitate,
- catch on,
- certify,
- change,
- check out,
- circumscribe,
- click,
- come off,
- condition,
- confine,
- connect,
- contain,
- convert,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- deform,
- denature,
- diminish,
- discipline,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- do,
- do it,
- do the job,
- draw the line,
- enable,
- equip,
- farewell,
- fill the bill,
- fit,
- fit out,
- fulfill,
- furnish,
- get by,
- go,
- go around,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- graduate,
- hack it,
- have the qualifications,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hold,
- improve,
- impute,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- just do,
- keep from spreading,
- keep within bounds,
- leaven,
- limit,
- localize,
- make a hit,
- make reservations,
- make the grade,
- mark,
- measure up,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- meet with success,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- narrow,
- overthrow,
- palliate,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- patent,
- predicate,
- prepare,
- prevail,
- prosper,
- put in trim,
- put in tune,
- re-create,
- reach,
- ready,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- reduce,
- refit,
- reform,
- register,
- regulate by,
- relate,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- satisfy,
- scant,
- season,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- set terms,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- signalize,
- soften,
- specialize,
- specifically provide,
- stand,
- stand up,
- stint,
- stipulate,
- stipulate for,
- straiten,
- stretch,
- subvert,
- succeed,
- suffice,
- suit,
- take,
- take it,
- temper,
- tighten,
- tune,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- vary,
- work,
- work a change,
- work well,
- work wonders,
- worsen