Enable vs. Let — What's the Difference?

To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able

To give permission or opportunity to; allow

To make feasible or possible

To cause to; make

To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to

Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal

To make operational; activate

Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat

To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).

To permit to enter, proceed, or depart

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 release from or as if from confinement

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

To rent or lease

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

To award, especially after bids have been submitted

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

To become rented or leased.

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

To be or become assigned, as to a contractor.

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

To hinder or obstruct.

To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Something that hinders; an obstacle

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

(Sports) An invalid stroke in tennis and other net games that requires a replay.

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent to}}.

Render capable or able for some task;

(transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.

(transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).

(transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.

(transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.

Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.

To cause + bare infinitive.

(archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).

(obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.

(obsolete) To tarry or delay.

The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.

An obstacle or hindrance.

(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.

To consider; to think; to esteem.

To cause; to make; - used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.

To permit; to allow; to suffer; - either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; - often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; - often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

To forbear.

A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; - common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.

A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

The most brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India;

A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again

Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen;

Actively cause something to happen;

Consent to, give permission;

Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;

Leave unchanged;

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;