What's the difference between qualify and worthy?

Qualify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
  • (v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
  • (v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
  • (v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.
  • (v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
  • (v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
  • (2) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (3) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
  • (5) Time-qualified data series were analysed by means of chronobiological procedures in order to validate the circadian rhythm and to correlate the sinusoidal profiles.
  • (6) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.
  • (7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (8) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (9) Orthopaedic nurse clinicians or orthopaedic operating room nurses are best qualified to assume the responsibilities of developing and managing a surgical bone bank.
  • (10) Qualified support was received for the third prediction that relatives would perceive problems as less severe than would able bodied persons.
  • (11) Because of the nonavailability of sufficient numbers of qualified industrial hygienists to assume roles as health compliance officers in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a three - year career development program for trainee industrial hygienists has been initiated.
  • (12) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (13) In these respects, the receptors qualified for a '5-HT1-like' classification.
  • (14) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
  • (15) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
  • (16) It's not the last match of the group but now we have to play the next two games at home and that's where we can decide to qualify for the round of 16, which is very important for us," Pellegrini said.
  • (17) Statistical analyses (p less than .001) indicated that female coaches were (a) more qualified than their male counterparts with respect to coaching experience with female teams, professional training, and professional experience; (b) as qualified as male coaches with regard to intercollegiate playing experience; and (c) less qualified than male coaches with respect to high school playing experience and coaching experience with male teams.
  • (18) McCluskey qualified his remarks by saying that Miliband has done a "good job" since his election as leader in 2010.
  • (19) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.
  • (20) In the courts the remarks of non-specialist qualified persons can lead to wrong decisions as can either unsuitable or wrong evidence.

Worthy


Definition:

  • (n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
  • (n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
  • (n.) Of high station; of high social position.
  • (n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
  • (v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new technique of HFCA is worthy of further development.
  • (2) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (3) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
  • (4) Actually, I think these are worthy subjects for discussion but, unfortunately, we don't have the time.
  • (5) Also worthy of consideration is the intensity of the outer layers of the synthetic grafts whose organization may have been compromised to some extent in favor of an improved patency ratio, particularly in recent years.
  • (6) In current practice, some of the goals cannot be met; they should be considered as targets worthy of achievement, not as inflexible criteria of acceptance or rejection of methods.
  • (7) It was worthy to be mentioned that both the incidence and mortality rate of NPC were relatively stable in 1970-1984.
  • (8) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
  • (9) He asked Cameron to write to Bawtree to say he believed the idea was worthy of endorsement.
  • (10) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (11) The Sounders’ season has been popularly characterized by the Dempsey-Martins partnership — and the MVP-worthy form of the latter in particular.
  • (12) A minimally invasive surgical technique is proposed which considerably simplifies the Stamey technique, shortens the surgical time and fives a weighted success rate of over 80%, which makes it worthy of consideration in treating female urinary incontinence.
  • (13) Nursing is therefore, a profession worthy of respect, that which has a unique function of curing and assisting individuals, families and community:- sick or well to reach whole completeness or independency.
  • (14) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
  • (15) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
  • (16) In this regard the role played by statistical methods appears to be specially worthy of consideration, so as to define the capabilities of a given surveillance system in identifying increasing risks.
  • (17) I work with a pacifist organisation; I don’t want to feel like I have to prove to everyone that I am worthy of being a member of this society when I have contributed so much.” Members of Amnesty International attended the peaceful demonstration, which drew little attention from the police.
  • (18) In carcinoma of the rectum occurring in patients in whom surgery represents a high risk, the problem of local treatment is worthy of discussion in certain precisely defined cases.
  • (19) A further three sites were examined, at Druridge Bay in Northumberland, Kingsnorth in Kent and Owston Ferry in South Yorkshire, and although "worthy of consideration", have been rejected for now.
  • (20) Using worthy contributions of the systemic theories, the authors analyze the ambiguity of such a request and the paradox underlying it, namely, to take care of a "normal" family crisis.

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