Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - engage
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Engage
engage
(engages, engaging, engaged) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it. (FORMAL) I have never engaged in the drug trade... VERB: V in n 2. If something engages you or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it. They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others. VERB: V n 3. If you engage someone in conversation, you have a conversation with them. They tried to engage him in conversation... VERB: V n in n 4. If you engage with something or with a group of people, you get involved with that thing or group and feel that you are connected with it or have real contact with it. She found it hard to engage with office life... VERB: V with n • engagement And she, too, suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the literary texts. N-UNCOUNT: usu N with n 5. If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it. (FORMAL) We engaged the services of a recognised engineer... VERB: V n 6. When a part of a machine or other mechanism engages or when you engage it, it moves into a position where it fits into something else. Press the lever until you hear the catch engage. ...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive. VERB: V, V n 7. When a military force engages the enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle. It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes. VERB: V n 8. see also engaged, engaging
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adjective Etymology: French, past participle of engager to engage Date: 1946 committed to or supportive of a cause ENGAGE verb (~d; engaging) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, from en- + gage pledge, gage Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to offer (as one's word) as security for a debt or cause 2. a. obsolete to entangle or entrap in or as if in a snare or bog b. to attract and hold by influence or power c. to interlock with ; mesh; also to cause (mechanical parts) to mesh ~ the clutch 3. to bind (as oneself) to do something; especially to bind by a pledge to marry 4. a. to provide occupation for ; involve ~ him in a new project b. to arrange to obtain the use or services of ; hire ~ a lawyer 5. a. to hold the attention of ; engross her work ~s her completely b. to induce to participate ~d the shy boy in conversation 6. a. to enter into contest or battle with ~ the enemy b. to bring together or interlock (weapons) 7. to deal with especially at length intransitive verb 1. a. to pledge oneself ; promise b. guarantee he ~s for the honesty of his brother 2. a. to begin and carry on an enterprise or activity ~d in trade for a number of years b. to take part ; participate at college she ~d in gymnastics c. to give attention to something ; deal the author's unwillingness to ~ with our political system — C. E. Rosenberg 3. to enter into conflict or battle 4. to come together and interlock (as of machinery parts) ; be or become in gear ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. 1 tr. employ or hire (a person). 2 tr. a (usu. in passive) employ busily; occupy (are you engaged tomorrow?). b hold fast (a person's attention). 3 tr. (usu. in passive) bind by a promise, esp. of marriage. 4 tr. (usu. foll. by to + infin.) bind by a contract. 5 tr. arrange beforehand to occupy (a room, seat, etc.). 6 (usu. foll. by with) Mech. a tr. interlock (parts of a gear etc.); cause (a part) to interlock. b intr. (of a part, gear, etc.) interlock. 7 a intr. (usu. foll. by with) (of troops etc.) come into battle. b tr. bring (troops) into battle. c tr. come into battle with (an enemy etc.). 8 intr. take part (engage in politics). 9 intr. (foll. by that + clause or to + infin.) pledge oneself. 10 tr. (usu. as engaged adj.) Archit. attach (a column) to a wall. 11 tr. (of fencers etc.) interlock (weapons). Derivatives engager n. Etymology: F engager, rel. to GAGE(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1) входить в контакт; вводить в контакт 2) входить в зацепление; вводить в зацепление 3) наживлять гайку 4) включать сцепление 5) связь подключать к линии to engage the VTR — включать видеомагнитофон ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1) сцеплять; включать; соединять; соприкасаться 2) ввинчивать; навинчивать 3) касаться, контактировать to engage into mesh — входить в зацепление to engage strip end — заправлять полосу в прокатный стан to engage with — вводить в контакт с ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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гл. 1) нанимать (проводника, адвоката, прислугу) 2) заниматься чем-л. (in/on/with) 3) обязываться (oneself) • - engage for ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. нанимать, принимать на работу to engage a guide —- нанять проводника he engaged Smith as his lawyer —- он нанял Смита в качестве адвоката I engaged her for the position —- я принял ее на эту должность 2. заказывать to engage hotel rooms —- заказать номера в гостинице to engage a seat —- заказать билет (в театр, на концерт) 3. заниматься to engage in teaching —- заниматься преподаванием, быть преподавателем to engage in an attempt —- делать попытку to engage in conversation —- вести беседу to engage in a game of tennis —- играть в теннис to be engaged in research —- заниматься научно-исследовательской работой say I am engaged —- скажите, что я занят the members of the Court when engaged on the business of the Court —- члены суда при исполнении ими судебных обязанностей he was engaged with a pipe —- он сосредоточенно курил трубку he was engaged with "Macbeth" —- он углубился в чтение "Макбета" he has long been engaged on that book —- он уже давно трудится над этой книгой he is busily engaged in phoning —- он беспрерывно звонит по телефону 4. участвовать to engage in a contest —- участвовать в соревновании to engage in local politics —- принимать участие в местной политической жизни I do not engage myself in such affairs —- в такие дела я не вмешиваюсь 5. занимать reading engages all my spare time —- чтение занимает все мое свободное время her work engages her completely —- она совершенно...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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with а) mil. атаковать Our army engaged with the enemy at the first light of day б) сочетаться (о частях механизма) The engine has stopped because the different parts of the motor are not engaging with each other properly. ENGAGE places заказать билеты ENGAGE for обещать, гарантировать; ручаться за кого-л. ENGAGE v. 1) нанимать; заказывать заранее (комнату, место) 2) заниматься чем-л. say I am engaged - скажите, что я занят to engage in a discussion - принять участие в дискуссии to be engaged in smth. - заниматься чем-л. 3) занимать, привлекать; вовлекать (in) Whichever nation explodes an atomic bomb will engage the whole world in war. to engage smb. s attention - завладеть чьим-л. вниманием 4) обязывать(ся) to engage by new commitments - связывать новыми обязательствами 5) usu. pass. обручиться (to) to be engaged - быть помолвленным(и) 6) mil. вступать в бой; открывать огонь to be engaged in hostilities - быть вовлеченным в военные действия 7) tech. зацеплять(ся); включать - engage for - engage with Syn: see hire ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v formal 1 to attract someone and keep their interest (The new toy didn't engage the child's interest for long.) 2 to arrange to employ someone (engage sb to do sth) (His father engaged a private tutor to improve his maths.) 3 to make one part fit into another part of a machine (She engaged the clutch and the car moved forwards.) (The wheel engages with the cog and turns it.) (- opposite disengage (2)) 4 to begin to fight with an enemy (The two armies engaged at dawn.) engage in formal phr v 1 to take part or become involved in an activity (a politician engaged in various business activities) 2 engage sb in conversation to start talking to someone and involve them in a conversation. ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1430, 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). Sense of "promise to marry" first recorded 1727. ENGENDER - c.1330, from O.Fr. engendrer, from L. ingenerare, from in- "in" + generare "beget, create." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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