qualify

Speech parts

1. qualify - Noun

2. qualify - Verb

Meaning

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.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

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.

Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.

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.

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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. David Bowie

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. Ajay Naidu

Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. Stephen Colbert

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify. Harold Ford, Jr.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but Harry Potter, too Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you. Robbie Coltraine

Whoever has not tasted sinfulness does not qualify for holiness. Hebrew Proverb

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