From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en]. Equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en] , [kwŏlʹĭ-fī]
- [en] , [kwŏʹlĭ-fī]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] , [kwălʹĭ-fī]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1999 | author=Matthew C. Bagger | title=Religious Experience, Justification, and History | isbn=1139425668 | page=62
|passage=Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to
explicitly deny that accidentally true belief QUALIFIES as knowledge.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2007-02-11 | author=Jay Romano | title=Triggering a Rent Increase | work=w:The New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/realestate/11qa.html
|passage=But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the
work would probably QUALIFY as a major capital improvement.}}
1. [en] To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task .
2. * [passage=He had QUALIFIED himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.]
3. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=2011-09-02 |author= |title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro |work=w:BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14660870.stm |page=
|passage=Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 QUALIFYING with a
morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders
Montenegro.}}
1. To certify or license someone for something.
2. To modify , limit , restrict or moderate something; especially to add condition s or requirement s for an assertion to be true.
3. * [109]
4. [en] To mitigate , alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable .
5. * [passage=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.]
6. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
7. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
8. * [edition=2nd]
9. [en] To throw and catch each object at least twice.
**** Antonyms
{{col3|en| |unqualify |disqualify }}
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|qualify out |disqualify |prequalify |outqualify |requalify
|unqualify |self-qualify |qualifying |qualified |qualifier }}
**** Related terms
{{col3|en| |qualification |disqualification |prequalification |requalification
|self-qualification |disqualifier |prequalifier |requalifier |non-qualified
|well-qualified |self-qualified |disqualified |prequalified |requalified
|unqualified |disqualifying |prequalifying |requalifying |self-qualifying
|qual |quali |qualie |qualy |Q |q |DQ |DSQ |DNQ }}
**** Translations
[to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or
task]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] [to make] , [de] [to become]
- Hungarian: [to make] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [to become] [hu] , [hu]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to certify or license someone for something]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible
for the next stage]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil] , [pt] [Portugal]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] [sport] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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- Irish: [ga]
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*** Noun
[?]<!--the plural qualifies may not be attested-->
1. [en] An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.