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Qualified vs First-rate - What's the difference?

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Qualified is a related term of first-rate.


As adjectives the difference between qualified and first-rate

is that qualified is meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.

As a verb qualified

is (qualify).

As a noun first-rate is

(military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.

qualified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
  • Restricted or limited by conditions.
    • Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.

    Antonyms

    * unqualified

    Verb

    (head)
  • (qualify)

    • first-rate

    English

    (wikipedia first-rate)

    Noun

  • (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks

    • Adjective

  • (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
  • (by extension) Exceptionally good.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
    • Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

    See also

    * second-rate * third-rate * fourth-rate