qualify

verb

1. 1

   To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

2. 2

   To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.

   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.

3. 3

   To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.

   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.

4. 4

   To become competent or eligible for some position or task.

   He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.

5. 5

   To certify or license someone for something.

6. 6

   To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

   O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify

7. 7

   archaicTo mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

   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.

8. 8

   To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

9. 9

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

   It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.

10. 10

    To throw and catch each object at least twice.

    to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

noun

1. 1

   An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

Forms

past tense

qualified

past participle

qualified

present participle

qualifying

third person singular

qualifies