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engaged

[en-geyjd]

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adjective

busy or occupied; involved: deeply engaged in conversation.

pledged to be married; betrothed: an engaged couple.

under engagement; pledged: an engaged contractor.

entered into conflict with: desperately engaged armies.

Mechanics.

interlocked.

(of wheels) in gear with each other.

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Architecture. (of a distinct member) built so as to be truly or seemingly attached in part to the structure before which it stands: an engaged column.

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Origin:
1605–15; engage + -ed²

Related forms

en·gag·ed·ly

[en-gey-jid-lee, -geyjd-] , adverb

en·gag·ed·ness, noun

un·en·gaged, adjective

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Managers can help ensure that people are happily engaged at work.

Some seasoned academics have no problem staying productive and engaged in faculty life during the latter years of their career.

What puzzles me is the mission the choppers were engaged in.

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Managers can help ensure that people are happily engaged at work.

Some seasoned academics have no problem staying productive and engaged in faculty life during the latter years of their career.

What puzzles me is the mission the choppers were engaged in.

They reflect the values of cultural groups and the kinds of political structure and economic activity engaged in by a society.

People reported being happiest when engaged in what they were doing versus allowing their minds to wander.

Scans have shown that much of the brain is engaged even during simple tasks.

Sure it's cheesy, but even a bad joke can help keep the audience engaged.

Until recent years, colleges engaged in little formal planning.

The tent cities began to spring up and the participants engaged in a consensus based democracy form of governing themselves.

He also opened email and turned up the volume on a television while engaged in conversation.

Watching hour-long research lectures might sound tedious, but the presenters find creative ways to keep the audience engaged.

It may lead to the punishment of individuals who have engaged in violently destructive acts.

We spend a large percentage of our lives at the office, engaged in the drudgery of work.

Being engaged in the game of life means making tough choices.

They are meanwhile engaged in some of their fiercest fighting in years.

It engaged during those last thirty years in a command-and-control model.

Telltale marks on the bones suggest that the hominids engaged in mortuary rituals.

The top left gear is engaged with the mid-right gear and will drive it.

When not engaged in recharging your cellphone, the front dynamo hub runs the lighting system.

All engaged teachers are continually looking for ways to evolve and improve.

Some bears played a big role in uncovering the folly that banks were engaged in.

But when she was five years old, she was already engaged to be married.

It would be interesting to know more about the specific circuits involved and when they are engaged.

Cylindrical stone seals picture deities in horned headdresses engaged in battle.

Siena really did it up brown when they engaged dannyrosefr.

Preference will be given to applicants engaged in teaching and research in bio-mathematics.

Abroad, they are trying to appear more engaged in resolving the world's problems.

Actually, the fixed wing aircraft is engaged in old-fashioned nautical sea charting-with a high-tech, high-flying twist.

Dieters are engaged in a constant battle between losing weight and eating tasty food.

School officials believe the electronic materials will get students more engaged in learning.

Students who enroll part time are less engaged than their full-time peers, and more likely to drop out of college.

So, it ruled, they engaged in a criminal conspiracy for which they cannot be pardoned or amnestied.

The biologists engaged in a hogging frenzy, probing half-submerged logs.

The nation, some claimed, was engaged in a culture war.

Studies on animals suggest a connection, but relatively little research has been conducted on people engaged in shift work.

Applicants should have demonstrated excellence in teaching and be engaged in active scholarship.

Reports suggest that the online intruders were probably engaged in espionage, downloading information.

When the pirates are finally engaged in battle, your task will be to seek out the treasure map.

Are engaged in monitoring and conversations on a theme of protection of an environment.

It's a personalized magazine for an active, social, highly engaged reader.

Arms will not be sent to countries engaged in conflict.

They were actively engaged with the community they wanted to mobilize.

With the generators in the harvesters engaged all the time, walking produced seven watts of power.

Nevertheless, they are totally engaged with all the details of driving that meet the narrow limits of their total focus.

There was little evidence that having more education made them more engaged in civic life or political organisations.

Along the way, enterprising ships¿ captains engaged in private trading of their own, abusing company resources for personal gain.

Mutz filmed professional actors engaged in a mock political debate from a medium distance and in extreme close-up.

He equally engaged in theology with, what at best, can be described charitably as disastrous consequences.

And they need not have won every battle they engaged in.

The research team speculates that when engaged in a mundane task, mind wandering allows people to remain properly aroused.

The new arrangements might oblige the slacker ones to be more engaged.

According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they've engaged in.

Additionally, with targeted ads, you can speak directly to specialized and highly engaged audiences.

Rolex is resolutely engaged in the challenge of halting climate change.

My intellect had to work so hard to figure out what was happening that my emotions never got engaged.

Students are engaged in active and experiential learning and have access to education through flexible delivery modes.

Participants were asked to rate how frequently they engaged in cognitively stimulating activities.

Girls are often pulled out of school as soon as they're engaged.

But the mid-right gear is barely engaged with the lower left gear and might or might not drive.

Professors add to their courses and report that students are more engaged.

We want to help develop skills to create a generation of active and engaged digital learners".

His nails were well cared for and there was no sign he had engaged in heavy manual work.

Depressingly, another woman was engaged in an anti-immigration rant.

Some of those companies have engaged in shady behavior on previous government contracts.

But ask both types of questions as this demonstrates you are an engaged teacher/scholar.

Bankers who do the same are fundamentally engaged in the same scam and should be placed in the same cell.

Prior to the eruption, there's little evidence that humans engaged in long-distance networking.

Likewise, observing hand and foot images engaged the corresponding brain regions.

They've also shown that people are better at recalling activities when their bodies are engaged in relevant postures.

Churchill had engaged in a pattern of misconduct, shown a.

Unfortunately, they engaged in the corporate equivalent of subprime borrowing and went in way over their heads.

Market the community garden to recruit new members and keep the community engaged with the garden's work.

Yes, some units once engaged in armed coercion have de-emphasized taking direct action against insurgent bombers.

Join a chat to discuss how one college has moved past the rhetoric to be truly globally engaged.

Both sides engaged in artillery and heavy-machinegun fire.

Sartore was a member of a global panel of judges who were impressed by the range of subjects that engaged the entrants.

As long as people have engaged in private conversations, eavesdroppers have tried to listen in.

Bowers found had engaged in cheating on those same.

Yet utilities may have to resort to social engineering to get customers more engaged.

It was as if they were engaged in constant party conversation.

The early inhabitants might have also been engaged in trading networks.

He was deeply engaged with real-world technology, exotic and well traveled, and a polymath respected in so many circles.

The graduate director had, for a half decade, engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct.

Afterward, both groups engaged in a new round of tasks.

And it is easily engaged by sensational singular events, rather than by long-term mundane patterns.

History normally portrays them as exiled patriots engaged in a gallant struggle.

If they want people to actually feel engaged by this site and use it, they've got to step it up.

Stories abound of boards or individual members who have engaged in heavy-handed attempts to dictate direction or priorities.

Yet now he seemed to be engaged in a cold war of petty disputes with a senior faculty member.

Many scientists engaged in high-stakes research will refuse to make thorough disclosures.

We are working on a facility plan that should keep anyone engaged for several years to come.

Western teachers should focus on keeping students engaged.

He says that the teams are engaged in semantic disagreements over what defines a clock.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons): He engaged her in conversation.

to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire: to engage a worker; to engage a room.

to attract and hold fast: The novel engaged her attention and interest.

to attract or please: His good nature engages everyone.

to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable: He engaged himself to repay his debt within a month.

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to betroth (usually used in the passive): They were engaged last week.

to bring (troops) into conflict; enter into conflict with: Our army engaged the enemy.

Mechanics. to cause (gears or the like) to become interlocked; interlock with.

to attach or secure.

10.

Obsolete. to entangle or involve.

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verb (used without object)

11.

to occupy oneself; become involved: to engage in business or politics.

12.

to take employment: She engaged in her mother's business.

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to pledge one's word; assume an obligation: I was unwilling to engage on such terms.

14.

to cross weapons; enter into conflict: The armies engaged early in the morning.

15.

Mechanics. (of gears or the like) to interlock.

Origin:
1515–25; < Middle French engager, Old French engagier. See en-¹, gage¹

Related forms

en·gag·er, noun

Synonyms
1. absorb, engross, interest, involve.

Antonyms
2. discharge. 8. release.

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World English Dictionary

engaged (ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd)

—*adj*
1.	pledged to be married; betrothed
2.	employed, occupied, or busy
3.	architect built against or attached to a wall or similar structure: an engaged column
4.	(of a telephone line) already in use

engagedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

engage

early 15c., from M.Fr. engagier, from O.Fr. en gage "under pledge," from en "make" + gage "pledge," through Frankish from P.Gmc. *wadiare "pledge" (showing the common evolution of Gmc. -w- to Fr. -g-; cf. Guillaume from Wilhelm). Specific sense of "promise to marry" first recorded 1727. Related: Engaged.

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