Induce vs Enable - What's the difference?
induce | enable |
To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To cause, bring about, lead to.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
(logic) To infer by induction.
(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.
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.
As verbs the difference between induce and enable
is that induce is to lead by persuasion or influence; incite while enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.induce
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Verb
(induc)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy. }}
Synonyms
* (to cause) bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provokeAntonyms
* (logic) deduceAnagrams
*References
* * ----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.}}