"qualify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkwɑ.lə.fɑɪ/ [US] Audio: en-us-qualify.ogg [US] Forms: qualify [canonical], qualifies [third-person, singular], qualified [past], qualified [past, participle], qualifying [present, participle]
enPR: kwäʹlə-fī [US] Etymology: quality + -ify Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|quality|ify}} quality + -ify Head templates: {{verb|qualif|y}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you qualify for something, you have what is needed to be allowed to get or do it.
    Sense id: simple-qualify-en-verb-cG5ZlTtB Categories (other): Verbs
  2. If x qualifies y for z, x is needed to be allowed to get or do z and y has x.
    Sense id: simple-qualify-en-verb-OxP~j0Bg
  3. If x qualifies as y, it has what is needed to be considered y.
    Sense id: simple-qualify-en-verb-41JzZsiA Categories (other): Verbs
  4. If you qualify an idea, you add something to explain that the idea isn't always true.
    Sense id: simple-qualify-en-verb-u-XHUXrf
  5. If a word or phrase qualifies another word or phrase, it limits or adds to the meaning of it.
    Sense id: simple-qualify-en-verb-PiwyOMdm Categories (other): Grammar
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ify
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