Enable ENABLE, v.t. [Norm. enhabler; en and hable, able. See Able.]
1. To make able; to supply with power,physical or moral; to furnish with sufficient power or ability. By strength a man is enabled to work. Learning and industry enable men to investigate the laws of nature. Fortitude enables us to bear pain without murmuring.
2. To supply with means. Wealth enables men to be charitable, or to live in luxury.
3. To furnish with legal ability or competency; to authorize. The law enables us to dispose of our property by will.
4. To furnish with competent knowledge or skill, and in general, with adequate means.

enable v 1: 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" [ant: disable, disenable, incapacitate]

enable baleen

enable c.1460, from en- "make, put in" + able (q.v.).

enable transitive verb (enabled; enabling) Date: 15th century 1. a. to provide with the means or opportunity <training that enables people to earn a living> b. to make possible, practical, or easy <a deal that would enable passage of a new law> c. to cause to operate <software that enables the keyboard> 2. to give legal power, capacity, or sanction to <a law enabling admission of a state>

enable
v.tr.
1 (foll. by to + infin.) give (a person etc.) the means or authority to do something.
2 make possible.
3 esp. Computing make (a device) operational; switch on.
Phrases and idioms:
enabling act
1 a statute empowering a person or body to take certain action.
2 US a statute legalizing something otherwise unlawful.
Derivatives:
enabler n.

enable (enables, enabling, enabled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. VERB: V n to-inf • enabling Researchers describe it as an enabling technology. ADJ 2. To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness... The working class is still too small to enable a successful socialist revolution. VERB: V n to-inf, V n 3. To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. ...the republic's legislation which enables young people to do a form of alternative service. VERB: V n to-inf • enabling Some protection for victims must be written into the enabling legislation. ADJ: ADJ n

enable ɪˈneɪbl v.tr. 1 (foll. by to + infin.) give (a person etc.) the means or authority to do something. 2 make possible. 3 esp. Computing make (a device) operational; switch on. øenabling act 1 a statute empowering a person or body to take certain action. 2 US a statute legalizing something otherwise unlawful. øøenabler n.

Enable \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.

ENABLE en-a'-b'-l: Only in 1Ti 1:12 (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) in the sense of "strengthen" (Greek endunamoo, "endue with strength").

enable v. a. Empower, qualify, capacitate, make able, make capable, render capable.

enable ɪˈneɪbl v. 1 qualify, authorize, entitle, permit, allow, sanction, approve, empower, license,commission, entrust, depute, delegate, assign, charter, franchise: An act was passed to enable them to build the railway. 2 capacitate, facilitate, expedite, help, aid, assist: The grant enabled me to continue my studies. 3 permit, allow, approve, assent to, go along with, agree to, give the go-ahead or green light, Colloq OK or okay: Her press pass enables her to get through police lines.

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "enable": OK, accredit, adapt, adjust, agree to, aid, allow, approve, arm, assent to, assign, assist, attune, authorize, capacitate, certificate, certify, charter, clothe, clothe with power, commission, condition, delegate, depute, deputize, empower, endow, endue, enfranchise, entitle, entrust, equip, expedite, facilitate, fit, franchise, furnish, give official sanction, give power, go along with, help, invest, legalize, legitimize, let, license, make possible, okay, patent, permit, prepare, privilege, put in trim, put in tune, qualify, ratify, ready, sanction, suit, tune, validate, warrant

enable enable(8) Easy Software Products enable(8) NAME disable, enable - stop/start printers and classes SYNOPSIS disable [ -E ] [ -c ] [ -h server ] [ -r reason ] destination(s) enable [ -E ] destination(s) DESCRIPTION enable starts the named printers or classes. disable stops the named printers or classes. The following options may be used: -c Cancels all jobs on the named destination. -r [ reason ] Sets the message associated with the stopped state. If no reason is specified then the message is set to "Reason Unknown". The -E option forces encryption when connecting to the server. COMPATIBILITY The CUPS versions of disable and enable may ask the user for an access password depending on the printing system configuration. This differs from the System V versions which require the root user to execute these commands. SEE ALSO accept(8), cancel(1), lp(1), lpadmin(8), lpstat(1), reject(8), CUPS Software Administrators Manual, http://localhost:631/documentation.html COPYRIGHT Copyright 1993-2005 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. 23 January 2001 Common UNIX Printing System enable(8)

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