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FromMiddle Englishenablen, equivalent toen- +‎able.

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enable (third-person singular simple presentenables,present participleenabling,simple past and past participleenabled)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:empower,endow
  2. Toaffirm; to make firm and strong.
  3. Toqualify orapprove for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
    Synonyms:let,permit,authorize
    • 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 3:21 from the start, inAnti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron[1], archived fromthe original on29 November 2024:
      This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England. However, the "positive law" mentioned–i.e., a direct law specificallyenabling slavery–existed in many British colonies (although not all), since these colonies had a degree of freedom to write their own law apart from that of the home country.
  4. To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
    Synonym:allow
    • 1711 October 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, October 13, 1711”, inThe Spectator, number195; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, [], volume II, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC,page506:
      Temperance gives Nature her full play, andenables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing inThe New York Times,‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
    • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, pages72–3:
      Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion andenables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
    • 2009,Meribeth A. Dayme,Dynamics of the Singing Voice, Springer Science & Business Media, page174:
      Trainers of modern athletes monitor performance by using high tech equipment and biometric bodysuits with embedded sensors toenable detailed analysis of movement, balance, efficiency for athletic performance.
    • 2022 January 12, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship retrospective”, inRAIL, number948, page49:
      During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regionsenabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first.
  5. To imply ortacitlyconfer excuse for an action or a behavior.
    His parentsenabled him to go on buying drugs.
  6. (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
  7. (chiefly electronics, computing) Toactivate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
    Synonyms:activate,turn on
    Antonym:disable

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Translations

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to give power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities
to make something possible
to allow a way out or excuse for an action
to activate a function of an electronic or mechanical device
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