different between qualify vs qualifying
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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qualifying
English
Verb
qualifying
- present participle of qualify
Derived terms
- qualifying position
Noun
qualifying (plural qualifyings)
- A qualification or added condition.
- An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.
Translations
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