Reallocate vs Enable - What's the difference?
reallocate | enable |
To change the user or purpose for which a resource is allocated.
:I want to reallocate some of my money from stocks to bonds. (I want to sell some of my stocks and use the proceeds to buy bonds to replace them.)
To allocate again.
:[Appending items one at a time is] still a better deal than concatenation, which reallocates every time.
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"
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.
* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
As verbs the difference between reallocate and enable
is that reallocate is to change the user or purpose for which a resource is allocated while enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.reallocate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(enabling) (enabl)- Who hath enabled me.
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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