Enable vs Unlock - What's the difference?
enable | unlock |
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
To obtain access to something.
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, title= To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge.
To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
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As verbs the difference between enable and unlock
is that enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong while unlock is to undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.enable
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(enabling) (enabl)- Who hath enabled me.
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Antonyms
* disableDerived terms
* enabler * enablement * re-enable * reenableExternal links
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*unlock
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Verb
(en verb)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked .