All 6 Uses
enable
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- The first floor of the Setting Sun was at no great height and a tree growing against the wall held out its branches to Raoul's impatient arms and enabled him to climb down unknown to the landlady.†
Chpt 5 *enabled = made possible
- The faint light was just enough to enable Raoul to distinguish the shape of things around him.†
Chpt 20enable = make possible
- Watch him as I might, after I first learned that he had taken up his permanent abode at the Opera, the darkness was always too thick to enable me to see how he worked the door in the wall on the lake.†
Chpt 21
- In this way also I discovered the road that led to the well and the dungeon—the Communists' dungeon—and also the trap-door that enabled Erik to go straight to the cellars below the stage.†
Chpt 21enabled = made possible
- I thought that the monster, being driven from his house by jealousy, would thus enable me to enter it, without danger, through the passage in the third cellar.†
Chpt 21enable = make possible
- This enables you easily to unloose the lasso, which then becomes harmless.†
Chpt 21enables = makes 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)