Definitions for qualifies

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qualifies qual·i·fy

Spelling: [kwol-uh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈkwɒl əˌfaɪ/

Qualifies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in qualifies (aefiilqsu).

Definitions for qualifies

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent:
2. to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive:
3. Grammar. to modify.
4. to make less violent, severe, or unpleasant; moderate; mitigate.
5. to attribute some quality or qualities to; characterize, call, or name:
6. to modify or alter the flavor or strength of:
7. Law. to certify as legally competent.

verb (used without object)

1. to be fitted or competent for something.
2. to get authority, license, power, etc., as by fulfilling required conditions, taking an oath, etc.
3. Sports. to demonstrate the required ability in an initial or preliminary contest:
4. to fire a rifle or pistol on a target range for a score high enough to achieve a rating of marksman, sharpshooter, or expert.
5. Military. to pass a practical test in gunnery.
6. Law. to perform the actions necessary to acquire legal power or capacity:

Origin of qualifies

1525-35; Medieval Latin quālificāre, equivalent to Latin quāl(is) of what sort + -ificāre -ify

Examples for qualifies

We cannot qualify it based on ideological notions or concepts important only at one time in history.

So Mr. Croy showed he could qualify the humble hand that assuaged him.

I began to qualify, rather weakly; but what I said did not matter.

To qualify for special protection, Marmolejos wrote, Doyle would have to have disclosed “substantial” law-breaking by the lab.

Qualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.

And I'll be qualify'd I never larnt such a word when I went to his school.

True, it took America until 1990 to qualify for another World Cup, and it was 64 years before we made it past the first round.

Magazines are the only thing in my apartment that qualify as clutter.

Do you send him to me,—I'll qualify him for that important station.

She tossed her head as much as to say that she was still able to qualify for the description.