To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
To affirm; to make firm and strong.
To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).