Qualify

['kwɒlɪfaɪ] or [ˈkwɑləˌfaɪ]

Definition

(verb.) make more specific; 'qualify these remarks'.

(verb.) make fit or prepared; 'Your education qualifies you for this job'.

(verb.) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; 'You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist'; 'This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover'.

(verb.) pronounce fit or able; 'She was qualified to run the marathon'; 'They nurses were qualified to administer the injections'.

(verb.) prove capable or fit; meet requirements.

Edited by Denny--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

(v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.

(v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

(v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

Editor: Oswald

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Fit, adapt, capacitate, propose, empower, enable, make fit, make suitable, make capable.[2]. Modify, limit, restrict, restrain.[3]. Soften, abate, diminish, mitigate, ease, assuage, moderate, temper.

Inputed by Gustav

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Fit, prepare, adapt, capacitate, limit, restrict, enable, render_capable

ANT:Unfit, misprepare, misqualify, disqualify, incapacitate, free, absolve

Checked by Dylan

Definition

v.t. to render capable or suitable: to furnish with legal power: to limit by modifications: to soften: to abate: to reduce the strength of: to vary: (Scots law) to prove confirm.—v.i. to take the necessary steps to fit one's self for a certain position.—adj. Qual′ifiable.—ns. Qualificā′tion that which qualifies: a quality that fits a person for a place &c.: (logic) the attaching of quality or the distinction of affirmative and negative to a term: abatement: (Shak.) pacification; Qual′ificātive that which qualifies modifies or restricts: a qualifying term or statement; Qual′ificātor (R.C.) one who prepares ecclesiastical causes for trial.—adj. Qual′ificātory.—p.adj. Qual′ified fitted: competent: modified: limited.—adv. Qual′ifiedly.—ns. Qual′ifiedness; Qual′ifier.—adj. Qual′ifying.—Property qualification the holding of a certain amount of property as a condition to the right of suffrage &c.

Checker: Wayne