QUALIFYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does qualifying mean? 

• QUALIFYING (noun)
  The noun QUALIFYING has 2 senses:

1. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

2. success in satisfying a test or requirement

  Familiarity information: QUALIFYING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUALIFYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

limiting; modification; qualifying

Hypernyms ("qualifying" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "qualifying"):

restrictiveness (a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ('red hat' has a more specific meaning than 'hat'))

apposition (a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows)

Derivation:

qualify (add a modifier to a constituent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Success in satisfying a test or requirement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pass; passing; qualifying

Context example:

he got a pass in introductory chemistry

Hypernyms ("qualifying" is a kind of...):

success (an attainment that is successful)

Derivation:

qualify (prove capable or fit; meet requirements)

 Context examples 

You may settle a legal case to your satisfaction or take a qualifying exam to enter college or to practice your specialty, such as the bar exam.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Satisfying an established set of qualifying measures.

(Acceptable, NCI Thesaurus)

He was immediately qualifying himself to form an opinion, by giving her very proper attention, after the introduction had passed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilisation.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A code qualifying the employment in various ways, such as, full-time vs. part time, etc.

(Employee Job Class, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You may take an important qualifying exam, and if so, with your friendly aspects, you will ace it near the full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)