different between qualify vs provide
qualify
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)
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- 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
- 1598, Shakespeare, Sonnet 109
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
Antonyms
- unqualify
Related terms
- disqualify
- qualification
- qualifier
Translations
Noun
qualify
- (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
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provide
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?vide? (“I foresee, I act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???va?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- To make possible or attainable.
- (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- provide such natives to the to the higher dignities of the church
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
Usage notes
As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).
Derived terms
- provider
Related terms
- provision
Translations
Anagrams
- prevoid
Galician
Alternative forms
- provinde
Verb
provide
- second-person plural imperative of provir
Italian
Verb
provide
- third-person singular past historic of provedere
Anagrams
- deprivo, deprivò
- provedi
Latin
Etymology
From pr?vidus (“prophetic, prudent, cautious”) +? -?, from pr?vide? (“foresee, be cautious”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pro?.u?i.de?/, [?p?o?u??d?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pro.vi.de/, [?p???vid??]
Adverb
pr?vid? (comparative pr?vidius, superlative pr?vidissim?)
- carefully, prudently
Verb
pr?vid?
- second-person singular present active imperative of pr?vide?
Noun
pr?vide
- singular vocative of pr?vidus
References
- provide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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