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To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.transitive
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To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.intransitive
- 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.
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To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.transitive
- 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.
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To become competent or eligible for some position or task.intransitivereflexive
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
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To certify or license someone for something.transitive
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To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.transitive
- O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
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To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.archaictransitive
- 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.
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To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.intransitive
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To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.transitive
- It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
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To throw and catch each object at least twice.transitive
- to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
ant. disqualify · unqualify