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engage meaning

EN[ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ] [ɛnˈɡeɪdʒ] [-eɪdʒ]
US
WEngage
  • Engage may refer to:
  • Engagement in preparation for marriage
  • Engage (organization), a UK-based political organization
  • Engage (visual arts), the UK National Association for Gallery Education
FR engage

    Definition of engage in English Dictionary

  • VerbSGengagesPRengagingPT, PPengagedPREen-SUF-age
    1. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
      1. Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage.
      2. the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
      3. Good nature engages everybody to him.
    2. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
      1. a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
    3. (heading) To interact contractually.
      1. For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
      2. They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year. ‎
      3. Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
    4. (heading) To interact mechanically.
      1. Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out. ‎
      2. The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
    5. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
    6. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
        • Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out. ‎
        • The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
      2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
        • Engaging extrahippocampal memory systems renders the task ineffective for quantifying HPC-based memory impairments.
      3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Morphemes
        • Prefixes
          • Words by prefix
            • Words prefixed with en-
        • Verbs
          • Intransitive verbs
            • Transitive verbs
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          4. fr engage
          5. fr engagez
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of engage for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "engage" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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