Qualify vs Nonqualifier - What's the difference?
qualify | nonqualifier |
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.
One who fails to qualify.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 18, author=Viv Bernstein, title=Kahne Proves Fans’ Faith Was Well Placed, work=New York Times
, passage=And he came up short in the Sprint Showdown race for nonqualifiers earlier in the night, failing to finish high enough to advance to the main event. }}
As nouns the difference between qualify and nonqualifier
is that qualify is (juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice while nonqualifier is one who fails to qualify.As a verb qualify
is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.qualify
English
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.
Antonyms
* unqualifyNoun
nonqualifier
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Noun
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