All 16 Uses of

enable

in

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

This sudden illumination of our cabin enabled me to examine its tiniest details.†
Chpt 1 *

enabled = made possible

But I confess that my curiosity is aroused to the limit by this Nautilus, the motor power it contains, the equipment enabling it to operate, the ultra powerful force that brings it to life.†
Chpt 1

enabling = making possible

You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves.†
Chpt 1

That day I started my diary of these adventures, which has enabled me to narrate them with the most scrupulous accuracy; and one odd detail: I wrote it on paper manufactured from marine eelgrass.†
Chpt 1

enabled = made possible

We use the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze device, invented by two of your fellow countrymen but refined by me for my own special uses, thereby enabling you to risk these new physiological conditions without suffering any organic disorders.†
Chpt 1

enabling = making possible

Surely, but as I told you, Professor Aronnax, the Nautilus's pumps enable me to store air under considerable pressure, and given this circumstance, the tank on my diving equipment can supply breathable air for nine or ten hours.†
Chpt 1

enable = make possible

After renewing its air, the Nautilus stayed at an average depth of fifteen meters, enabling it to return quickly to the surface of the waves.†
Chpt 1

enabling = making possible

a dark brown egg, furrowed with white bands, and lacking tails; globefish, genuine porcupines of the sea, armed with stings and able to inflate themselves until they look like a pin cushion bristling with needles; seahorses common to every ocean; flying dragonfish with long snouts and highly distended pectoral fins shaped like wings, which enable them, if not to fly, at least to spring into the air; spatula-shaped paddlefish whose tails are covered with many scaly rings; snipefish with long jaws, excellent animals twenty-five centimeters long and gleaming with the most cheerful colors; bluish gray dragonets with wrinkled heads; myriads of leaping blennies with black stripes and lon†
Chpt 2

enable = make possible

There, through the open panels and in a midwater of crystal clarity, our ship enabled us to study wonderful bushes of shining coral and huge chunks of rock wrapped in splendid green furs of algae and fucus.†
Chpt 2

enabled = made possible

Set in the cabin's walls were four deadlights, windows of biconvex glass that enabled the man at the helm to see in every direction.†
Chpt 2

We stayed on watch before the lounge windows, and our notes enable me to reconstruct, in a few words, the ichthyology of this sea.†
Chpt 2

enable = make possible

Oh, if only we had the chemical methods that would enable us to drive out this noxious gas!†
Chpt 2

"How long," I asked, "will the oxygen in the air tanks enable us to breathe on board?"†
Chpt 2

The positions reported each day on the world map were put there by the chief officer, and they enabled me to determine the Nautilus's exact heading.†
Chpt 2

enabled = made possible

These flat disks on their heads consist of crosswise plates of movable cartilage, between which the animals can create a vacuum, enabling them to stick to objects like suction cups.†
Chpt 2

enabling = making possible

This Gulf Stream is a huge heat generator that enables the coasts of Europe to be decked in eternal greenery.†
Chpt 2

enables = makes possible

Definition:

to make possible

in 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."