Triggered by the annual tax season confusion.
Qualify, as a verb, can be either transitive or intransitive.
Intransitive: Gain the skills and knowledge needed for an academic degree or professional certification or licensing. Similarly, advance in a competition to be able to compete in the final round.
Transitive: Modify a meaning or definition in a way that reduces its applicability.
The past participle can be used to express opposite meanings: An unqualified success is one that is in no way negative. On the other hand, the 45th U,S. president was unqualified for the office to which he was elected.
The IRS category "Qualified Charitable Distribution" might mean either that there are limitations on the category or that eligibility depends on particular attributes.
The noun "qualification" has similar shades of meaning, depending on context.
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Re: qualify
Qualify seems to be mostly adding 'facere' to quality. That is to say, making something have, or giving something, a quality.
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