English Online Dictionary. What means enable? What does enable mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈneɪbəl/
- Rhymes: -eɪbəl
Verb
enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)
- 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
- To affirm; to make firm and strong.
- To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
- Synonyms: let, permit, authorize
- To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
- Synonym: allow
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- To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
- (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
- (chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- Synonyms: activate, turn on
- Antonym: disable
Derived terms
- enabler
- enablement
- re-enable
- reenable
Translations
Further reading
- “enable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “enable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “enable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- baleen