Usually means: Make possible through provision, support.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. enable: Merriam-Webster
  2. enable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enable, enable: Wordnik
  7. enable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enable: Wiktionary
  9. enable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enable, enable: Dictionary.com
  13. enable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Enable (horse): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Enable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. enable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. enable: Rhymezone
  19. enable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. enable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. enable: FreeDictionary.org
  22. enable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. enable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. enable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enable: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ENABLE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. enable: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enable: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
verb:  To affirm; to make firm and strong.
verb:  To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
verb:  To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
verb:  To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
verb:  (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
verb:  (chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

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