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VerbUS[eh-ney-buhl]/ɛˈneɪbəl/3 syllablesalso [ih-ney-buhl] /ɪˈneɪbəl/
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haphazardadjective
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Translations
Verb to activate, switch on a function
- Spanish
- activar
- French
- activer
- German
- aktivieren
- Italian
- attivare
- Portuguese
- ativar
- Russian
- включа́ть vključátʹ
- Chinese
- 启用 qǐyòng
- Dutch
- inschakelen
- Polish
- aktywować
- Swedish
- aktivera
14 more languages
- Indonesian
- memfungsikan
- Hungarian
- bekapcsol
- Portuguese (PT)
- ativar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 啟用 qǐyòng
- Czech
- zapnout
- Danish
- tænde
- Esperanto
- enŝalti
- Estonian
- sisse lülitama
- Finnish
- aktivoida
- Latvian
- aktivizēt
- Romanian
- activa
- Serbo-Croatian
- aktivirati
- Slovak
- zapnúť
- Slovenian
- vklopiti
Verb to give power, sanction or authorization to
- Spanish
- habilitar
- French
- autoriser
- German
- befähigen
- Italian
- permettere
- Portuguese
- habilitar
- Dutch
- inschakelen
- Portuguese (PT)
- habilitar
- Catalan
- habilitar
- Finnish
- mahdollistaa
- Welsh
- galluogi
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
En·a′ble transitive verb [past tense & past participle Enabled; present participle & verbal noun Enabling.]
1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. obsolete “Who hath enabled me.” 1 Tim. i. 12.
Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.— Taylor, Jeremy
2. 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.— Joseph Addison
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54