Enable vs. Disable
Difference Between Enable and Disable
Enableverb
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.Disableverb
To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.
Enableverb
To make feasible or possible
funds that will enable construction of new schools.Disableverb
(Law) To render legally incapable of performing an act.
Enableverb
To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to
a law enabling a new federal agency.Disableverb
(transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
Enableverb
To make operational; activate
enabled the computer's modem.enable a nuclear warhead.Disableverb
To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
Falling off the horse disabled him.Enableverb
To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).
Disableverb
To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of a electronical or mechanical device).
The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.Enableverb
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Disableadjective
(obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.
Enableverb
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities, and the like
Disableverb
make unable to perform a certain action;
disable this command on your computerEnableverb
To make something possible or provide an opportunity for something.
Disableverb
injure permanently;
He was disabled in a car accidentEnableverb
To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.Enableverb
(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
Enableverb
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of a electronical or mechanical device).
Enableverb
render capable or able for some task;
This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall StreetThe rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain
