enable vs halt

enable

verb
  • To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior. 

  • To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. 

  • To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like. 

  • 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. 

halt

verb
  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

noun
  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

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