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Qualify

verb

(past & past part. qualified; pres. part. qualifying)

Prove capable or fit; meet requirements. Synonym: measure up.

Pronounce fit or able. "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"

Make more specific. Synonym: restrict.

Make fit or prepared. Synonym: dispose.

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement. Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate. "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"

Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of. Synonyms: characterise, characterize. "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"

Add a modifier to a constituent. Synonym: modify.

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"Qualify" Quotes from Famous Books

... two, are exactly alike. Find these twin flyers! Some pictures are different in the collar, helmet, goggles, or tie. Remember, only two of the twelve are exactly alike. Find them, and send the numbers of the twin flyers on a post card or letter today. If correct, your answer will qualify you for ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... been the measure of success in the nineteenth century. But as the full significance of this "machine-made" age is grasped it will be seen that it has set free the human laborer, if only he will qualify himself to use the power at his hand. The house will become the first lesson in the use of mechanical appliances, in control of the harnessed forces of nature, and of that spirit of cooperation which alone can bring the benefits of modern science to the doors ...

— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards

... their short revolutionary methods, and massacred him in a manner so perfidious and cruel, as would shock all humanity, if the stroke was not struck by the present rulers on one of their own associates. But this last act of infidelity and murder is to expiate all the rest, and to qualify them for the amity of a humane and virtuous sovereign and civilized people. I have heard that a Tartar believes, when he has killed a man, that all his estimable qualities pass with his clothes and arms to the murderer: but I have never heard that it was the opinion of any savage Scythian, ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... was trespassing on the rights of the beautiful Pauline. Rapidly plans for the future were written in firm resolve. She would thankfully remain under the roof that had so kindly sheltered her, until she could qualify herself to teach. She would ask Dr. Hartwell to give her an education, which, once obtained, would enable her to repay its price. To her proud nature there was something galling in the thought of dependence, and, throwing ...

— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... that you qualify your denial, as your crimson cheeks both now and during dinner are ample proof that I am right. But (as I was about to say, when you interrupted me so rudely) from my observations, I thought it high time that Mr. Barrington should ...

— Isabel Leicester - A Romance • Clotilda Jennings

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