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qualify   (TTS Sound)

The verb qualify has 7 senses

• qualify, measure up -- (prove capable or fit; meet requirements)


• qualify -- (pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections")


• qualify, restrict -- (make more specific; "qualify these remarks")


• qualify, dispose -- (make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job")


• stipulate, qualify, condition, specify -- (specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments")


• qualify, characterize, characterise -- (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")


• modify, qualify -- (add a modifier to a constituent)