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qualify | x |

As a verb qualify

is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

As a noun qualify

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

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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.
  • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----