English Dictionary

enable

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈneɪbəl/

動詞

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. / To affirm; to make firm and strong.

日本語の意味

～ができるようにする、可能にする。能力や権限を与える。 / （強める意味で）確固たるものにする、断言する、強固にする。

The new software will enable students to access research materials from anywhere.

新しいソフトウェアは学生がどこからでも研究資料にアクセスできるようにします。

意味（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.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

意味（2）

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

意味（3）

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

意味（4）

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

意味（5）

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

意味（6）

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

意味（7）

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

enables （ present singular third-person ）

enabling （ participle present ）

enabled （ participle past ）

enabled （ past ）