Validate vs Enable - What's the difference?
validate | enable |
To render valid.
To check or prove the validity of; verify.
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.
As verbs the difference between validate and enable
is that validate is to render valid while enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.validate
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(validat)Antonyms
* disprove * invalidateenable
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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.
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