Crossword clues for qualifier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Qualifier \Qual"i*fi`er\, n. One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, agent noun from qualify. Grammatical sense is from 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualify for a stage in a competition. 2 A preliminary stage of a competition. 3 (context grammar English) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another. 4 (context computing programming English) A marker that qualify or modifies another code element.
WordNet
n. a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier"
a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier]
Usage examples of "qualifier".
I was the fastest qualifier until Shelby gave Gurney a second lap and he just beat me out.
What troubled me, however, was the Croats' evident need to hide behind them, as if a simple apology without qualifiers might delegitimate them as a nation.
There she lucked out by discovering a qualifier: As the planet was nearly self-sufficient and no Optherians left their home world, there was no need for such services.
The fist crashing into the baby's face, the tire cut open with a jackknife, the barroom brawl, the insertion of razor blades into Halloween apples, the constant, vapid qualifiers which the human mind, in all its labyrinthine twists and turns, is able to spew forth.
Their analyses contained too many qualifiers and reservations, no doubt in an effort to cover their own backs, but they were generating an immense amount of raw data, and a handful of new strategists were emerging to use that data.