engage
Meaning of engage
- occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention).
he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans and engage Sutton's attention
I told him I was otherwise engaged
- participate or become involved in.
organizations engage in a variety of activities
some are actively engaged in crime
- arrange to employ or hire (someone).
he was engaged as a trainee copywriter
- (with reference to a part of a machine or engine) move into position so as to come into operation.
the clutch will not engage
the driver engaged the gears and pulled out into the road
- (of fencers or swordsmen) bring (weapons) together preparatory to fighting.
late Middle English (formerly also as ingage ): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage1. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something’), hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th century), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th century), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.
adjective
(of a writer or artist) committed to a particular aim or cause.
French, past participle of engager (see engage).
Information about engage
- The plural form of engage is: engages.
- Languages in which engage is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of engage
en-gage
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- engage is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
engage synonyms
Meaning prosecute:
Meaning absorb:
Meaning hire:
Meaning betroth:
Meaning wage:
Meaning enlist:
Meaning lease:
lease, rent, hire, charter, take
Meaning mesh:
Meaning take into one's possession or control by force:
Meaning engage (a person's interest or imagination):
Meaning attract the attention of (someone):
Meaning grasp or seize suddenly and roughly:
Meaning take hold of suddenly and forcibly:
Meaning attract (someone) to come to a place or an event:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a liking for or interest in something:
Meaning obtain or secure (something wanted or desirable):
Meaning be successful or victorious in (a contest or conflict):
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning keep (someone's interest or attention):
Meaning firmly hold the attention or interest of:
Meaning commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on:
Meaning enlist (someone) in the armed forces:
Meaning recruit (someone) to perform a service:
Meaning assign a job or role to (someone):
Meaning order or authorize (a person or organization) to do or produce something:
Meaning keep (someone) engaged in one's service:
Meaning (of two or more things) engage with each other by overlapping or by the fitting together of projections and recesses:
Meaning connect with each other:
Meaning (of two or more things) mesh with one another:
Meaning link; connect:
Meaning come or bring together for a common purpose or action:
Meaning bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established:
Meaning put a yoke on (a pair of animals); couple or attach with or to a yoke:
Meaning (of animals or birds) come together for breeding; copulate:
Meaning link or combine (something) with something else:
engage antonyms
Meaning be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something):
Meaning order or allow to leave; send away:
Meaning separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected:
Translation of engage
- French: engager, embaucher, recruter
- Spanish: entablar, emplear, contratar
- Italian: assumere, ingaggiare
Words that rhyme with engage
Gage, gage, broadgage, baggage, foggage, luggage, frigage, coengage, counterdisengage, disengage, drengage, greengage, preengage, reengage, burgage, countergage, harbergage, herbergage, nonburgage, undergage, disgage, dismortgage, mortgage, overmortgage, remortgage, submortgage, unmortgage