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Experience vs Qualify - What's the difference?

experience | qualify |

As nouns the difference between experience and qualify

is that experience is experiment, trial, test while qualify is (juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

As a verb qualify is

to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

experience

Noun

(en noun)
  • Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
  • (label) An activity which one has performed.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}
  • (label) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
  • (label) The knowledge thus gathered.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

    Antonyms

    * inexperience

    Derived terms

    * experiential * experience points * experienced

    Verb

    (experienc)
  • To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
  • Derived terms

    * experienceable

    qualify

    English

    Verb

  • To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
  • To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
  • * Macaulay
  • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • 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
  • It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.
  • (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
  • Antonyms

    * unqualify

    Noun

  • (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.