endow

Can someone please clarify what it means to "endow a chair.

The main goal is to endow some organisms with new useful traits.

In so doing, we can endow it with the same morals and ethics we do our own children.

To us it indicates that a divine Creator was required to endow these rodents with this language gift.

It certainly made sense for the bank to connect to a pre-existing and well known award rather than to endow an obscure prize from nothing.

Having to endow the humiliation to stop at check points to move around in their own country, watch their land being endlessly consumed by settlers.

And the most significant contribution that our large brain made to our approach to the universe was to endow us with the power of story.

Or endow a non-profit with sufficient funds to ensure perpetually running no matter the number of subscriptions.

Attempts to endow web applications with stronger composition/encapsulation should not be directed at the DOM layer but at the CSS and JS layers above and below it.

The entire context of tech journalism shifts from reporting the facts to reporting on them reporting and before you know it every half-wit tech blogger has their own column where they endow the world with their opinion of things.

Heres the really interesting thing: thanks to this kind of empathy, if an AI is indistinguishable from human intelligencethat is, it passes the Turing testthen well be obligated to endow it with equal rights.

With TimeMachine they've done remote storage devices.. As the size of the devices shrink, I imagine there will eventually just be a small Apple hockey puck that will endow any device it's connected to with the ability to be managed by your computer.