2026年5月8日 · Enable has a number of senses, most of which are some variant on allowing someone (or something, such as enabling cookies on a computer) to do something.

ENABLE definition: 1. to make someone able to do something, or to make something possible: 2. to allow or make it….

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.

ENABLE definition: to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to: Students with vision impairments are enabled in the classroom with magnifiers and screen reader software. See …

To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. The republic's legislation enables young people to do a form of alternative service. [VERB noun to-infinitive]

en•a•ble /ɛnˈeɪbəl/ v. [~ + object + to + verb], -bled, -bling. to make able; authorize; give power or ability: The money will enable us to hire more workers.

These choices are part of what enabled the company to be successful. The proposed tax will enable [= facilitate] the hiring of more police officers. Be sure to enable your computer's firewall.

2026年1月20日 · 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 …

enable: To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able.

When you make something possible, you enable it. Your good grades might enable you to get into your first-choice college. And a great teacher enabled you to get such good grades. Enable has taken on …