Alex Just in case you have not read the dictionary lately - one of thedefinitions of disability is - Unproductiveness Sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.
Specialty Definitions: Ability Satire ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn. Source: Devil's Dictionary. Tips from 1870 Usage: Ability, Capacity. A fond mother was told by the principal of a boarding-school that her daughter would not be graduated, as she lacked capacity. "Get her a capacity. Her father don't stand on the matter of expense. Get her anything she wants. He'll foot the bill." But for once the indulgent mother was obliged to learn that there are some things money will not purchase. The father had the financial ability, but the daughter lacked the necessary intellectual capacity. But we may have literary as well as financial ability. Ability implies the power of doing; capacity the faculty of receiving. Ability Noun 1. The quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment. 2. Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination". Definitions: Disable Verb 1. Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer". 2. Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident". Computing To remove or inhibit a normal capability. Source: European Union. (references) To suppress an interrupt feature. Source: European Union. (references)\ 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. Inutility Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear. Restraint Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate). Unproductiveness Sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.
