qualifyverb/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/

• 1

  To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

• 2

  To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.

  • Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
  • But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
• 3

  To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.

  • They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.
• 4

  To become competent or eligible for some position or task.

  • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
• 5

  To certify or license someone for something.

• 6

  To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

  • O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
• 7

  archaicTo mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

  • 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.
• 8

  To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

qualifynoun/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/

• 1

  artshobbiesjugglingAn instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.