Eligible vs. Qualify — What's the Difference?

Having the right to do or obtain something; satisfying the appropriate conditions

To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task

Qualified or entitled to be chosen

To declare competent or capable, as to practice a profession; certify

Desirable and worthy of choice, especially for marriage

To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics

(Football) Allowed under the rules to catch a forward pass.

To modify, limit, or restrict, as by listing exceptions or reservations

A person who is eligible.

To make less harsh or severe; moderate

Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something

(Grammar) To modify the meaning of (a noun, for example).

Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).

To be or become qualified

One who is eligible.

To reach the later stages of a selection process or contest by competing successfully in earlier rounds.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.

To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.

Qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen;

To certify or license someone for something.

Prohibited by official rules;

To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

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.

(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

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.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

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.

Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

To soothe; to cure; - said of persons.

To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

Prove capable or fit; meet requirements

Pronounce fit or able;

Make more specific;

Make fit or prepared;

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;

Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of;

Add a modifier to a constituent