Definition of Qualify

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Qualify

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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Qualify Quotations

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Dick Gregory

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

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
John Mellencamp

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

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.
Kent McCord

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow

Qualify Translations

qualify in French is qualifient, qualifions, qualifiez
qualify in German is beschreiben, eignen, Eigenschaft, ausbilden
qualify in Norwegian is modifisere, kvalifisere
qualify in Spanish is capacitar
qualify in Swedish is kvalificera

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