Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
QUALIFY
modify, qualify
(verb) add a modifier to a constituent
qualify
(verb) make more specific; “qualify these remarks”
qualify, dispose
(verb) make fit or prepared; “Your education qualifies you for this job”
qualify, characterize, characterise
(verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; “You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist”; “This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover”
qualify
(verb) pronounce fit or able; “She was qualified to run the marathon”; “They nurses were qualified to administer the injections”
stipulate, qualify, condition, specify
(verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; “The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life”; “The contract stipulates the dates of the payments”
qualify, measure up
(verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
To certify or license someone for something.
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
(now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
Antonyms
• unqualify
Noun
qualify
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
Source: Wiktionary
Qual"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Qualified; p. pr. & vb. n. Qualifying.] Etym: [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L. qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Quality, and -Fy.]
1. 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. He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. Macaulay.
2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.
3. 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.
4. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage. Shak.
5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.] In short space he has them qualified. Spenser.
Syn.
– To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.
Qual"i*fy, v. i.
1. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
2. To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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