| 单词 | qualifier |
| 释义 | qualifier (once / 4698 pages) 1n 2n If person is a qualifier, they've done well enough at some sport or activity to make it into an important competition. Qualifiers have made it into the big league. When a word, rather than a person or a team, is described as a qualifier, it means that it modifies another word. Grammatical qualifiers are often adjectives. In the sentence "That is a fluffy cat," the word fluffy is a qualifier, attributing a specific quality to the word cat. The root of qualifier is the Latin qualis, "Of what sort?" WORD FAMILYqualifier: qualifiers+/disqualification: disqualifications/disqualify: disqualification, disqualified, disqualifies, disqualifying/qualification: qualifications/qualified: qualifiedly, unqualified/qualify: disqualify, qualification, qualified, qualifier, qualifies, qualifying/qualifying: qualifyings/unqualified: unqualifiedly USAGE EXAMPLESOn Sunday, they’re competing to become a rare NFL species: a back-to-back playoff qualifier that failed to reach 10 victories in either season. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) In the AFC, the six qualifiers are set, but four teams are playing for positioning. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) And yet with the World Cup qualifiers ahead there were encouraging signs. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition 2the tournament was won by a late qualifier Hyper contestant a person who participates in competitions n a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb Syn|Hypo|Hyper modifier intensifier, intensive a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies adjectivea word that expresses an attribute of something adverba word that modifies something other than a noun dangling modifier, misplaced modifiera word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' descriptive adjective, qualifying adjectivean adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice') classifying adjective, relational adjectivean adjective that classifies its noun (e.g., `a nervous disease' or `a musical instrument') positive, positive degreethe primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution comparative, comparative degreethe comparative form of an adjective or adverb superlative, superlative degreethe superlative form of an adjective or adverb dangling participlea participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view' adverbiala word or group of words function as an adverb content word, open-class word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned |
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