transitive verb enable computers: turn on feature 1
transitive verb enable empower, make able, sb 1
transitive verb enable make possible 1
transitive verb enable law: authorize 1
noun enable Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something. 1
verb enable To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. 0
verb enable To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. 0
verb enable To allow a way out or excuse for an action. 0
verb enable If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. 0
verb enable To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. 0
verb enable To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. 0
verb enable to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something) 0
verb enable to make possible 0
verb enable to put (a digital electronic circuit element) into an operative condition by supplying a suitable input pulse 0
verb transitive enable to make able; provide with means, opportunity, power, or authority 0
verb transitive enable to authorize, allow, or permit 0
verb transitive enable to make possible or effective; specif., to make possible or support the dysfunctional behavior of (someone), as by denying it exists or compensating for it in some way 0
