All 12 Uses
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Snow Crash
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- The money these corporations pay to build things on the Street all goes into a trust fund owned and operated by the GMPG, which pays for developing and expanding the machinery that enables the Street to exist.†
Chpt 3-4enables = makes possible
- The monorail is a free piece of public utility software that enables users to change their location on the Street rapidly and smoothly.†
Chpt 3-4
- I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplish this incredible feat.†
Chpt 7-8 *enabled = made possible
- So for purposes of this mission, we developed a detector that would enable us to find cell wallpenetrating compounds in the air.†
Chpt 31-32enable = make possible
- According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols.†
Chpt 35-36
- It enabled all men to understand each other, to communicate without misunderstanding.†
Chpt 35-36enabled = made possible
- So Hiro starts by writing a few simple programs that enable him to manipulate the contents of the scroll without ever seeing it.†
Chpt 47-48enable = make possible
- They worried about the user interface, the controls that enabled the rider to transfer his reactions into the machine, to steer, accelerate, or brake as quickly as he could think.†
Chpt 47-48enabled = made possible
- It's webbed over with rope ladders and makeshift stairways that enable people to climb up into this container or that.†
Chpt 53-54enable = make possible
- Like a cracker who breaks into a computer system, bypasses all the security precautions, and plugs himself into the core, enabling him to exert absolute control over the machine.†
Chpt 55-56enabling = making possible
- He figured that with a little venture capital, this neurolinguistic hacking could be developed as a new technology that would enable Rife to maintain possession of information that had passed into the brains of his programmers.†
Chpt 57-58enable = make possible
- A number of the Kouriers are taking advantage of this sound track to style up and down the banks of the river, only Vitaly, live, can get their adrenaline pumping hard enough to enable them to skate a sharp bank at eighty miles per hour plus without doing a wilson into the crete.†
Chpt 65-66
Definitions:
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(1)
(enable) to make possiblein various senses, including:
- to give someone the ability, knowledge, or authority to do something -- as in "The study will enable an informed discussion."
- to activate a computer system for use -- as in "You can enable the feature in the Settings Page."
- to permit someone to repeat bad behavior, so they reinforce the bad pattern -- as in "I don't want to enable her drug addiction."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)