Enroll vs Qualify - What's the difference?
enroll | qualify |
To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
* Prescott
* Milton
To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
(obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
* Macaulay
To certify or license someone for something.
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
*1598 , Shakespeare,
*:O! never say that I was false of heart,
*:Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
As verbs the difference between enroll and qualify
is that enroll is to enter (a name, etc) in a register, roll or list while qualify is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.As a noun qualify is
(juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.enroll
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Alternative forms
* enrol (UK) (CA)Verb
(en verb)- All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
- An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
- They were eager to enroll new recruits.
- Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register forDerived terms
* enrollee * enroller * enrollmentqualify
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Verb
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
- 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.
- It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.
