Difference between competition and qualifier
Definitions
noun
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- the contestant you hope to defeat
- a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
Examples
Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
Five miles and 1000 vertical feet had a marvelously dissuasive effect on the competition.
Definitions
noun
- a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition
- a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
Examples
Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
Still, we managed to beat Italy in the first of a sporting double-header in which our footballers will shortly travel to Italy for a World Cup qualifier.
The rest of the lads on the squad will have to go away to the other qualifiers, so the slagging has started already, that I am going to be on my holidays while they will be working away.
