Qualifier vs Qualifies - What's the difference?
qualifier | qualifies |
One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
A preliminary stage of a competition.
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
(grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
(computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
* 2012 , Conor Sexton, C++ Programming Made Simple
(qualify)
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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 a noun qualifier
is one who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.As a verb qualifies is
.qualifier
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(wikipedia qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- But England's final qualifier , played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.
- The qualifier
constmay be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.
Synonyms
* (grammar) modifierSee also
* (grammar) determinerqualifies
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Verb
(head)qualify
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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.