enable

Etymology

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

verb

1. 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.
2. To affirm; to make firm and strong.
3. To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
4. To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
   April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
   Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. 2013-06-29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
   Trainers of modern athletes monitor performance by using high tech equipment and biometric bodysuits with embedded sensors to enable detailed analysis of movement, balance, efficiency for athletic performance. 2009, Meribeth A. Dayme, Dynamics of the Singing Voice, Springer Science & Business Media, page 174
   During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regions enabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first. January 12 2022, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship retrospective”, in RAIL, number 948, page 49
5. To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
   His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
6. (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
7. (chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).