Both Uses
enable
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Major Barbara
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- It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.†
Act 2 *enables = makes possible
- I enabled Barbara to become Major Barbara; and I saved her from the crime of poverty.†
Act 3enabled = made possible
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)