enable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something)

   To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

2. 2

   To affirm

   To affirm; to make firm and strong.

3. 3

   To qualify or approve for some role or position

   To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

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   1. 4

      To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something

      To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

      • Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
      • April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
   2. 5

      To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

      • His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
   3. 6

      To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

   4. 7

      To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical…

      To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

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