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enable
English
Etymology
From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- +? able.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ne?b?l/
- Rhymes: -e?b?l
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.
- 1611, King James Bible, "1 Tim. i. 12"
- And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- Synonyms: empower, endow
- 1611, King James Bible, "1 Tim. i. 12"
- 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
- 1711, October 13, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 195
- 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
- 2009, Meribeth A. Dayme, Dynamics of the Singing Voice, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 174:
- Trainers of modern athletes monitor performance by using high tech equipment and biometric bodysuits with embedded sensors to enable detailed analysis of movement, balance, efficiency for athletic performance.
- 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- enable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- enable at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- baleen
enable From the web:
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sorbent
English
Noun
sorbent (plural sorbents)
- (sciences) A substance that can enable sorption.
Translations
Derived terms
- desorbent
- geosorbent
References
- Sorbent
Anagrams
- Bertons, Bretons, Robsten
Latin
Verb
sorbent
- third-person plural present active indicative of sorbe?
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