Difference between Competent and Able

COMPETENT vs ABLE: NOUN

Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Legally qualified or sufficient
Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
Adequate for the purpose

(usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
Having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
Having a strong healthy body
Having sufficient power or resources to accomplish something.
Susceptible to action or treatment.
Especially capable or proficient.
Have the skills and qualifications to do things well
Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence.
Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful
Fit; adapted; suitable.
Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable

Adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
Fitted, etc. See qualified.
Rightfully or lawfully belonging; pertaining by right; permissible: followed by to.
In law, having legal capacity or qualification: as, a competent judge or court; a competent witness.
Having ability or capacity; properly qualified: as, a competent bookkeeper.
Answering all requirements; suitable; fit; sufficient or adequate for the purpose: as, competent supplies of food and clothing; an army competent to the defense of the kingdom.
In geology, having sufficient firmness and strength to transmit pressure to other strata or to lift an overlying burden, as a rock or stratum.
In physical geography, of a stream, capable of transporting fragments of a given size.

To enable.
To warrant or answer for.
Having power or means sufficient; qualified; competent: as, a man able to perform military service; a child is not able to reason on abstract subjects.
Legally entitled or authorized; having the requisite legal qualification: as, an illegitimate son is not able to take by inheritance.
Having strong or unusual powers of mind, or intellectual qualifications: as, an able minister.
In an absolute sense: Vigorous; active.

Proficient, Empowered, Competency, Skilled, Sane, Competence, Knowledgeable, Incompetent, Able, Workmanlike, Efficient, Adequate, Effective, Capable, Qualified

Enable, Allow, Ready, Enabled, Willing, Could, Ability, Can, Allowed, Unable, Able bodied, Capable, Competent, Healthy, Fit

Proficient, Empowered, Competency, Skilled, Sane, Competence, Knowledgeable, Incompetent, Able, Workmanlike, Efficient, Adequate, Effective, Capable, Qualified

Enable, Allow, Ready, Enabled, Willing, Could, Ability, Can, Allowed, Unable, Able bodied, Capable, Competent, Healthy, Fit

Sufficient staff are competent in operating the system.
CDD information available to competent authorities on request.
Definition Client is mentally competent when giving consent.
Are changes reviewed and authorized by competent personnel?
Trustee may apply to a court of competent.
Structural elements will be designed and constructed by competent professionals, and certified or approved by competent authorities or professionals.
These previously expressed preferences by adolescents competent to consent or the parents of minors not competent to consent must be respected by researchers.
Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that makes less competent people overestimate their abilities and more competent people underestimate them.
Interestingly, there is some discrepancy between the GMC guidance relating to competent children as opposed to competent adults.
Competent, professionally run organisations have a better chance to attract competent people.

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