Equipped vs Capable - What's the difference?
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(equip)
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
(obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of'', ''for or an infinitive.
* 1775 Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'' (''Works 10.479):
As a verb equipped
is past tense of equip.As an adjective capable is
able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.equipped
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Verb
(head)equip
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(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
Anagrams
* (l), ----capable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She is capable and efficient.
- He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
- As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
- That fact is not capable of proof.
- He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.