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Enable vs. Inable — What's the Difference?

Enable vs. Inable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Enable and Inable

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Enable

To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able
A hole in the fence that enabled us to watch.
Techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart.

Inable

Unable, not able.

Enable

To make feasible or possible
Funds that will enable construction of new schools.

Inable

To enable.

Enable

To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to
A law enabling a new federal agency.
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Inable

See Enable.

Enable

To make operational; activate
Enabled the computer's modem.
Enable a nuclear warhead.

Enable

To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).

Enable

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.

Enable

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

Enable

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

Enable

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

Enable

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

Enable

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

Enable

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

Enable

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.

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

Enable

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

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