Enable
verb
To make someone or something able to do something.
This tool will enable you to do your job more efficiently.
Often appears as...
- enable someone
- enable something
verb
In computing, to activate a function of a device or software.
You need to enable JavaScript in your browser to view this webpage properly.
Often appears as...
- enable javascript
- enable cookies
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Technical
verb
To make possible.
His wealth enabled him to retire early.
Often appears as...
- enable success
- enable outcome
verb
To make someone or something able to do something.
This tool will enable you to do your job more efficiently.
Often appears as...
- enable someone
- enable something
verb
In computing, to activate a function of a device or software.
You need to enable JavaScript in your browser to view this webpage properly.
Often appears as...
- enable javascript
- enable cookies
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make possible.
His wealth enabled him to retire early.
Often appears as...
- enable success
- enable outcome
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Empowerment nuance
Enabling often implies giving someone the power or means to overcome obstacles.
The scholarship enabled her to attend college.
Pro Tip 2/3Not always direct
The action of enabling may not provide immediate results but sets the stage for future capabilities.
The training enabled them for future managerial roles.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive contexts
'Enable' is often used in a positive context, suggesting improvement or enhancement.
This feature enables quicker data processing.
Pro Tip 1/3Empowerment nuance
Enabling often implies giving someone the power or means to overcome obstacles.
The scholarship enabled her to attend college.
Pro Tip 2/3Not always direct
The action of enabling may not provide immediate results but sets the stage for future capabilities.
The training enabled them for future managerial roles.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive contexts
'Enable' is often used in a positive context, suggesting improvement or enhancement.
This feature enables quicker data processing.
Pro Tip 1/3Empowerment nuance
Enabling often implies giving someone the power or means to overcome obstacles.
The scholarship enabled her to attend college.
Pro Tip 2/3Not always direct
The action of enabling may not provide immediate results but sets the stage for future capabilities.
The training enabled them for future managerial roles.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive contexts
'Enable' is often used in a positive context, suggesting improvement or enhancement.
This feature enables quicker data processing.
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How a wound heals itself...
and provides protection. Since its outer layer is constantly being shed and renewed, it's pretty easy to repair. But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings that enable the skin's many functions.
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
that prevents your blood from clotting. That compound, which we're mildly allergic to, triggers the release of histamine, a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response
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What happens to our...
that might help with the space issue? In some countries, skyscraper cemeteries enable vertical burials. Some options focus on the body's relationship with the environment. Promession, for example, freeze-dries and pulverizes the body,
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So bats are also important for our health, to enable us to better understand how our genome functions. So this is where we are right now, but what about the future? What about longevity?
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enabling life to flourish thanks to its location just south of the equator the sedan getty sun rises high in the
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How the food you eat...
Like the other organs in our bodies, our brains also benefit from a steady supply of micronutrients. Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables strengthen the brain to fight off free radicals that destroy brain cells, enabling your brain to work well for a longer period of time. And without powerful micronutrients,
Video examples
Upgrading management...
our research for the dakota company we were encouraged to see a whole new wave of innovation companies taking inspiration from the consumer landscape and pulling it into the workplace collectively what all these companies are doing is actually shifting the data lens inward to better enable and empower
Video examples
The evolution of the...
Being cupped, rather than flat, enables it to better sense the direction of the incoming light. Among its other uses, this ability allows an organism to seek out shade and hide from predators. Over the millenia, as such light cups grew deeper in some organisms, the opening at the front grew smaller.
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How a wound heals itself...
and provides protection. Since its outer layer is constantly being shed and renewed, it's pretty easy to repair. But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings that enable the skin's many functions.
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The Science of a...
and that's really really important because it enables the cheetah to maximize the stride length keep by bunching and coiling that a spine alone it's able to expand this incredible stride rate which you see look at his back watch the back it's down now watch when
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
that prevents your blood from clotting. That compound, which we're mildly allergic to, triggers the release of histamine, a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response
Video examples
How to spot a misleading...
is far more significant. When they're used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it's also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way.
Video examples
What happens to our...
that might help with the space issue? In some countries, skyscraper cemeteries enable vertical burials. Some options focus on the body's relationship with the environment. Promession, for example, freeze-dries and pulverizes the body,
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Emma Teeling: The secret...
So bats are also important for our health, to enable us to better understand how our genome functions. So this is where we are right now, but what about the future? What about longevity?
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Fire and Feast PIPE A...
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.
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Emmylou Harris
American Musician
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
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Frank Gaffney
American Writer
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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Guru Randhawa
Indian Musician
Bollywood helps in enabling a platform for many artistes.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Claude Vorilhon
French Celebrity
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.
Quote examples
Emmylou Harris
American Musician
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Quote examples
Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
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Frank Gaffney
American Writer
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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Guru Randhawa
Indian Musician
Bollywood helps in enabling a platform for many artistes.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Claude Vorilhon
French Celebrity
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
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