qualify

CEFRB2

/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/

verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

In context

In order to qualify for the homestay you must have an interview with the sponsors.
to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches
But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.

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Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62
But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times
They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.
1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8
O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.