Enabling

Examples

• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Holley of the United States improved the Bessemer apparatus by enabling a greater number of charges to be converted into steel within a given time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This gave much greater flexibility, and the further advantage of enabling a shoemaker to half sole the shoe by the old method of hand sewing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the matter was received over the wire he paragraphed it so that each printer had exactly three lines, thus enabling the matter to be set up very expeditiously in the newspaper offices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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