Qualify

Definition

qualify / 'kwɒlÇfaÇ / v ( pt, pp -fied ) ၁။ (က) ~ (as sth) အရည္အခ်င္းျပည့္မီေၾကာင္း အသိအမွတ္ျပဳခံရသည္။ She won't qualify (as a doctor) until next year. ❍ How many years does it take to qualify? (ခ) ~ sb (for sth) ေဘာင္ဝင္ေစသည္။ အခြင့္ရသည္။ The training course will qualify you for a better job. ❍ The test qualifies you to drive heavy vehicles. ၂။ ~ (sb) (for sth) အခြင့္ရိွသည္။ အခြင့္ရသည္။ Residence in the area automatically qualifies you for membership. ❍ After six months you'll qualify for a pay review. ❍ Eighteen-year-olds qualify to vote. ❍ To qualify, you must have lived in this country for three years or more. ၃။ ~ (for sth) (ေျခစစ္ပြဲစသည္) လြန္ေျမာက္သည္။ England failed to qualify. ❍ They qualified for the World Cup in Italy. ၄။ ~ (sth) as sth တူမွ်သည္။ အဆင့္မီသည္။ It's an old building, but it doesn't quite qualify as an ancient monument! ၅။ ႁခြင္းခ်က္ျပဳသည္။ I feel I must qualify my earlier remarks in case they are misinterpreted. ၆။ ( grammar ) အထူးျပဳသည္။ In 'the open door', 'open' is an adjective qualifying 'door'. ❏ qualified adj ၁။ (က) ~ (for sth) အရည္အခ်င္း ျပည့္ မီေသာ။ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ျပည့္မီေသာ။ a qualified doctor ❍ She's extremely well qualified for the job. ❍ It takes three years to become qualified. (ခ) ပိုင္ႏိုင္[ေသာ]။ သင့္ေတာ္[ေသာ]။ I'm not really qualified to comment on this matter. ၂။ ႁခြင္းခ်က္ျပဳေသာ။ give the scheme only qualified approval. ❏ qualifier / -faÇǝ(r) / n ၁။ ( grammar ) (နာမဝိေသသန၊ ႀကိယာဝိေသသန ဟူေသာ) အထူးျပဳပုဒ္။ ၂။ (က) (ေျခစစ္ပြဲ၊ စမ္းသပ္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္တြင္) ေအာင္ျမင္သူ၊ အသင္း။ The final brings together two qualifiers from each heat. (ခ) ေျခစစ္ပြဲ။ a World Cup qualifier.

Examples

1. [qualify as] : Andrew qualified as a teacher in 1995.
2. [qualify in] : After qualifying in medicine
3. he worked for a time at City Hospital.
4. [be qualified to do something] : At the end of the course
5. you will be qualified to practise law.
6. [fully/newly/properly qualified] : A fully qualified ski instructor
7. [qualify someone to do something] : It is the only course in the country that qualifies you to be a tabloid journalist.
8. [qualify as] : 90% of the boat people did not qualify as refugees.
9. [qualify for] : To qualify for Olympic status
10. a sport must be played in 50 countries and on three continents.
11. [qualify for a discount/benefit/grant] : You may qualify for a student grant.
12. [be qualified to do something] : Only people over the age of 18 are qualified to vote.
13. [qualify someone for something] : Her income was too high to qualify her for any help with child care expenses.
14. [qualify someone to do something] : The fact that his grandparents were Irish qualified him to play in the Irish national team.
15. It would be incredible if Brazil failed to qualify.
16. [qualify for] : What are your team’s chances of qualifying for the finals?
17. [a qualifying match/tournament/round/tie] : Scotland’s World Cup qualifying tie against Malta
18. I welcome the positive approach – perhaps I should qualify that by saying ‘the largely positive approach’ – adopted by the government.