Capacitate (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Make capable; "This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Examples

• The training program is designed to capacitate employees with the skills necessary for leadership roles in the company.
• This set of instructions capacitates users to repair their own gadgets at home.
• The new technology aims to capacitate small businesses to compete with larger corporations.
• Her experience working with children has capacitated her to become an effective teacher.
• The course capacitates students to analyze complex data and make informed decisions.

Hypernyms

• Dispose

Related Words

• Capacity (noun)

Meaning ²

Make legally capable or qualify in law.

Classification

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

Examples

• The new legislation will capacitate minors to sign contracts in certain circumstances.
• She was capacitated by the court to make her own financial decisions after the age of 16.
• The Supreme Court ruled that emancipated minors should be capacitated to vote in state elections.
• Only once the child is capacitated by a judge can they make decisions about their own custody arrangements.
• Upon reaching the age of majority, the law will capacitate her to enter into her own business agreements.

Related Words

• Capacity (noun)

Meaning ³

Cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg.

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Examples

• The process of capacitation involves changes in the membrane and subsequent release of proteins to capacitate sperm cells in the reproductive tract.
• In order for fertilization to occur, sperm must first capacitate while moving through the female reproductive system.
• Experiments in the lab were designed to understand the biochemical conditions necessary to capacitate the spermatozoa in vitro.
• Various factors and conditions come into play to capacitate the spermatozoa for successful binding to the egg surface.
• The seminal plasma proteins help to capacitate the sperm within the female reproductive tract by modifying their membrane properties.