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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition;
- Example: "the tournament was won by a late qualifier"

2. a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb;
[syn: modifier, qualifier]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Qualifier \Qual"i*fi`er\, n. One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

qualifier n 1: a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier" 2: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier, qualifier]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "qualifier": IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, filler, form-function unit, function, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, levels, modifier, object, phrase structure, predicate, ranks, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, strata, structure, subject, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, underlying structure, word arrangement, word order