Used in a Sentence

qualifier

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for qualifier.

Editorial note

There's an important qualifier: loser pays reasonable costs of prevailing party, and the judge decides what is reasonable.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of qualifier gathered in one view.

noun

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

noun

A preliminary stage of a competition.

noun

(computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for qualifier.

noun

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

noun

A preliminary stage of a competition.

noun

(computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.

noun

(grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.

Example sentences

1

There's an important qualifier: loser pays reasonable costs of prevailing party, and the judge decides what is reasonable.

2

With that qualifier in mind, I assume you mean Watson, Taylor, and Hunt.

3

Without a qualifier, it only makes sense to say that traits are 100% due to genetics.

4

The only place that keywork should be used is a qualifier for member functions or when used in an embedded sense.

5

That's fine for an op-ed, but you then latching onto those numbers, even with a qualifier, still undermines your position on the matter.

6

If I used illegal-ness as my main qualifier instead of harm, that might fix some confusion.

7

However, I would still prefer a take home test as I feel its a far better qualifier than an in-person interview.

8

That's why I lead with the qualifier of veterans who lead with their title.

9

I had the same question on my mind and it needs a qualifier not because it's impolite, but because you might be offended by it.

10

Right, if every assignment writes to memory and every expression reads from memory then you've effectively made every variable volatile (according to how compilers typically interpret volatile), so ignoring the qualifier wouldn't hurt anything.

11

Here the 8-bit qualifier refers to the 6502 CPU's word size; the NES in-particular only had a total palette size of 54 colours [1], and additional colour limitations meant that in practice you'd rarely see more than around ~25 at a time.

12

So you avoid situations where, after you've continued working on component A, you realize that there's still something missing to component B after all (which may be something as silly as an incorrect const-qualifier).

Quote examples

1

I was suspicious of this story, too, for the same reason, and that's why I added the "possible" qualifier to the title.

2

Ok, as a non-native speaker, maybe the "qualifier" I used is too strong.

3

The "long-term" qualifier is important here.

4

Your handle shows promises of honesty, but where is it when you end up bundling a "country" of some one billion and a half people under the all-encompassing banner of an pejorative qualifier such as "fucked up"?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use qualifier in a sentence?

There's an important qualifier: loser pays reasonable costs of prevailing party, and the judge decides what is reasonable.

What does qualifier mean?

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

What part of speech is qualifier?

qualifier is commonly used as noun.