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Qualify vs Fulfill - What's the difference?

qualify | fulfill |

As verbs the difference between qualify and fulfill

is that qualify is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities while fulfill is (archaic) to fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.

As a noun qualify

is (juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

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.
  • fulfill

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
  • To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
  • To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
  • To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
  • Derived terms

    * fulfilled * fulfilling * fulfillable * fulfillment