Crossword clues for qualify
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, v. i.
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
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.]
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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.
He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
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To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound.
--Sir T. Browne. 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.
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Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage.
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To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
In short space he has them qualified.
--Spenser.Syn: To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to invest with a quality," from Middle French qualifier (15c.) and directly from Medieval Latin qualificare "attribute a quality to; make of a certain quality," from Latin qualis "of what sort?," correlative pronomial adjective (see quality) + facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "to limit, modify" is from 1530s. Sense of "be fit for a job" first appeared 1580s. Related: Qualified; qualifying.
Wiktionary
n. (context juggling English) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice. vb. 1 To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. 2 To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. 3 To certify or license someone for something. 4 To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true. 5 (context now rare English) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable. 6 To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage. 7 To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. 8 (context juggling English) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
WordNet
v. prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: measure up]
pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" [ant: disqualify]
make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: restrict]
make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: dispose] [ant: disqualify]
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, condition, specify]
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: characterize, characterise]
add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify]
[also: qualified]
Wikipedia
Qualify (foaled 22 April 2012) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. On 5 June 2015 she was a 50/1 winner of the Epsom Oaks. She ran seven times as a juvenile in 2014, winning a maiden race and the Group Three C. L. Weld Park Stakes but was well-beaten when tried against the best fillies of her generation in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. In the spring of 2015 she was initially disappointing as she finished unplaced in both the 1000 Guineas and the Irish 1000 Guineas before being stepped up in distance and winning the Oaks.
Usage examples of "qualify".
Thus all the men who qualified at the census as knights were accommodated within the First Class.
It was naturally supposed, that the pious and humble monks, who had renounced the world to accomplish the work of their salvation, were the best qualified for the spiritual government of the Christians.
She accustomed her husband to consider Julian as a youth of a mild, unambitious disposition, whose allegiance and gratitude might be secured by the gift of the purple, and who was qualified to fill with honor a subordinate station, without aspiring to dispute the commands, or to shade the glories, of his sovereign and benefactor.
Those persons who, from their age, or sex, or occupations, were the least qualified to judge, who were the least exercised in the habits of abstract reasoning, aspired to contemplate the economy of the Divine Nature: and it is the boast of Tertullian, that a Christian mechanic could readily answer such questions as had perplexed the wisest of the Grecian sages.
Nor was he the sort to risk the failure of a mission by assigning anyone to command it but the person he thought best qualified to carry it out.
His Confederation Astronautics Board licence said he was qualified for both air and space operations, but it was three hundred and twenty years out of date.
His field was ballistics and firearms identification, and while he might have supplemented his findings with those from other fields, he was not qualified in spectrography, which entails expertise in physics and chemistry.
William Paley was trained in mass brainwashing techniques at the Tavistock Institute prior to being passed as qualified to head CBS.
Two years later the Marquis, wishing to engage a master of singing for his son, sent to one Nicolo, the German, at Ferrara, and this musician recommended Giovanni Brith as highly qualified to sing in the latest fashion the best songs of the Venetian style.
Every one spoke of his crusty temper and bullying disposition, invariably qualifying the statement with a commendation of his resources and capabilities.
Here we are, qualified butler and housekeeper, and no one to buttle and housekeep for.
The sentence was misquoted, quoted without its qualifying conditions, and frightened some of my worthy professional brethren as much as if I had told them to throw all physic to the dogs.
Let us suppose you can afford to give with your daughter ten thousand pounds, which would enable this young man to live with credit and reputation, and engage advantageously in trade, for which you say he is well qualified, the alternative then will be, whether you would rather see her in the arms of a deserving youth whom she loves, enjoying all the comforts of life with a moderate fortune, which it will always be in your own power to improve, or tied for life to a monied man whom she detests, cursing her hard fate, and despising that superfluity of wealth, in spite of which she finds herself so truly wretched.
It was the opinion of many who wished well to their country, and were properly qualified to prosecute such inquiries, that the practice of consigning such a number of wretches to the hands of the executioner, served only, by its frequency, to defeat the purpose of the law, in robbing death of all its terror, and the public of many subjects, who might, notwithstanding their delinquency, be in some measure rendered useful to society.
You can acquire many of these skills by reading the books, but to become a certified paraprofessional helper you must, of course, be observed and supervised extensively in real life situations by a qualified trainer.