Synonyms:
qualify, measure_up
Meaning: prove capable or fit; meet requirements
Synonyms:
qualify
Meaning: pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
Synonyms:
qualify, restrict
Meaning: make more specific; "qualify these remarks"
Synonyms:
qualify, dispose
Meaning: make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"
Usage examples
Of course travellers of this kind need to remember that their experiences in themselves do not qualify them to speak as wilderness explorers.
He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey different significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
The more intelligent adversaries of the new Constitution admit the force of this reasoning; but they qualify their admission by a distinction between what they call INTERNAL and EXTERNAL taxation.
Traddles having mentioned newspapers to me, as one of his hopes, I had put the two things together, and told Traddles in my letter that I wished to know how I could qualify myself for this pursuit.
Moreover, the technicalities of these peoples, being not so immediately and constantly brought into contrast and contact with their Latin or Greek roots as they would be if they were derived (as are so many "patriotic" German technicalities) from native roots, are free to qualify and develop a final meaning distinct from their original intention.