English Dictionary

enable

/ɪˈneɪbəl/

verb

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. / To affirm; to make firm and strong.

The new software update will enable users to access additional features.

意味（1）

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.

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.

意味（2）

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

意味（3）

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

意味（4）

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

意味（5）

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

意味（6）

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

意味（7）

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).