different between evaluate vs qualify

English

Etymology

Back-formation from evaluation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??valj?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???valj??we?t/
• Hyphenation: eval?u?ate

Verb

evaluate (third-person singular simple present evaluates, present participle evaluating, simple past and past participle evaluated)

1. (transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To compute or determine the value of (an expression).

3. (intransitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Evaluation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• evaluate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evaluate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• evaluate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eva?luate/

Verb

evaluate

1. adverbial present passive participle of evaluar

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?/, enPR: kw?l??-f?
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.fa?/, enPR: kw?l??-f?
• Hyphenation: qual?i?fy

Verb

qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)

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.
   • 1598, Shakespeare, Sonnet 109

     O! never say that I was false of heart,

     Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify

5. (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     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.

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. (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.

Antonyms

• unqualify

Related terms

• disqualify
• qualification
• qualifier

Translations

Noun

qualify

1. (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.