enable vs pinion

enable

verb
  • 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 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 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. 

pinion

verb
  • To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding. 

  • To restrain; to limit. 

  • To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying. 

noun
  • The smallest gear in a gear train. 

  • Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing. 

  • A moth of the genus Lithophane. 

  • The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body. 

  • A wing. 

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