Enables vs Ensures - What's the difference?
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(enable)
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
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, title= To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
(ensure)
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As verbs the difference between enables and ensures
is that enables is third-person singular of enable while ensures is third-person singular of ensure.enables
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*enable
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(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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*ensures
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(head)ensure
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(ensur)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}