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ENABLE
enable
(verb) render capable or able for some task; “This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street”; “The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
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
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
Anagrams
• baleen
Source: Wiktionary
En*a"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling.]
1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor.
2. 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. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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