qualify

Verb

1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
3. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
4. To certify or license someone for something.
5. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
6. (archaic) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
7. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
8. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
9. To throw and catch each object at least twice.

Noun

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkwɑl.ɪ.faɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.

Synonyms

modify

characterize

specify

restrict

dispose

describe

condition

measure up

define

characterise

estimate

judge

🧑‍⚖️

evaluate

train

🚋

certify

appreciate

deserve

set

reduce

fit

assess

instruct

limit

stipulate

capacitate

deem

damp

bound

amend

delineate

cut

curtail

believe

consider

confine

bate

alter

accept

🉑

honour

figure

classify

feature

extenuate

film

📽️

circumscribe

explain

illustrate

assay

allay

entitle

Translations

qualifier

qualificare

🧑‍⚖️

capacitar

calificar

définir

kwalificeren

bepalen

qualificar

qualificar

qualifizieren

abilitare

ausbilden

χαρακτηρίζω

qualificarsi

cualificar

Sentences

Cascarino said in his autobiography: I didn't qualify for Ireland .