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Definition: Disenable |
DisenableVerb1. Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Disenable \Dis`en*a"ble\, transitive verb. [Prefix dis- enable.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DisenableSynonyms: disable (v), incapacitate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: enable (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disenable | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disenable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 防止 (Prevent, Prevented, Preventing, stoppered, Stoppering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | oslabit (blunt, debilitate, disable, emasculate, enfeeble, impair, weaken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alkalmatlanná tesz (disqualify, invalid, to disincline, to incapacitate, unfit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isenableday desenredar (disentangle, extricate, unravel, untangle, unwind), inutilizar (crock, flawless, frustrate, torpedo), incapacitar (disable, disentomb, disquiet, incapacitate, Nobby, unfit). (various references) делать неспособным (disable, incapacitate). (various references) sprečiti (arrest, avert, balk, baulk, debar, forestall, head off, hinder, impeach, impede, inhibit, keep from, preclude, prevent, scotch), onemogućiti. (various references) desenchufar (unplug). (various references) diskvalificera (disable, disqualify, incapacitate), göra oduglig (crock, disable, unfit). (various references) робити нездатним (disable, incapacitate). (various references) analluogi (disable, incapacitate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Disenable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dispenable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: abseiled, baseline, beladies, delaines, deniable, sendable. | |
-2 letters: aediles, aliened, aniseed, bailees, baldies, baleens, bandies, basined, beadles, beanies, bindles, blendes, delaine, denials, disable, edibles, enabled, enables, enisled, ensiled, lesbian, linseed, snailed. | |
-3 letters: abeles, abides, ablins, abseil, aedile, aedine, aisled, aliens, alined, alines, aneled, aneles, bailed, bailee, baleen, beadle, beaned, beanie, bedels, belied, belies, beside. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ascendible, breadlines. | |
+2 letters: disablement, discernable, dispensable, undesirable. | |
+3 letters: considerable, diagnoseable, disablements, indefeasible, indefeasibly, indefinables, sedimentable, speedballing, undesirables, voidableness. | |
+4 letters: admirableness, advisableness, banderilleros, candleberries, considerables, deliberations, deniabilities, desirableness, imponderables, indescribable, indispensable, undescribable, unestablished. | |
+5 letters: absentmindedly, benzimidazoles, creditableness, deliberateness, despicableness, detonabilities, formidableness, inconsiderable, indecomposable, indemonstrable, indiscoverable, indispensables, nonestablished, polybutadienes, rediscountable, thiabendazoles, undeniableness, undiscoverable, unpredictables, voidablenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s e n a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0065 006E 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585718067687871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kínai, chinês, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrán, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | 威"士, 威爾士語 , waleský, waleština, walesi, galês, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, walesisk, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
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