About The Word Engaged
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Engaged Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Engaged?
[adj] having services contracted for; "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
[adj] pledged to be married; "the engaged couple" [adj] having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" [adj] (architecture) built against or attached to a wall; "engaged columns" [adj] (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting; "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors" [adj] involved in military hostilities; "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight" [adj] (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal" [adj] reserved in advance Synonyms | Synonyms for Engaged: affianced | attached | bespoken | betrothed | booked | busy | committed | connected | employed | geared | in use(p) | intermeshed | involved | meshed | occupied | pledged | reserved | set-aside(p) Related Terms | Find terms related to Engaged: absorbed | absorbed in | accessory | affianced | agreed | armed | arranged | arrayed | assured | at it | at work | battled | betrothed | bound | buried in | busy | caught up in | committed | compacted | compromised | contemplating | contemplative | contracted | covenanted | deep | deployed | devoted | devoted to | embattled | employed | engrossed | engrossed in | full of business | guaranteed | hard at it | hard at work | immersed | immersed in | implicated | in battle array | in harness | intended | intent | intent on | involved | lost in | meditating | meditative | monomaniacal | monopolized | obligated | obsessed | occupied | on duty | on the go | on the hop | on the job | on the jump | on the move | on the run | partaking | participant | participating | participative | participatory | pledged | plighted | preoccupied | promised | ranged | rapt | sealed | settled | sharing | signed | single-minded | stipulated | studious | studying | submerged in | swept up | sworn | taken up with | tied up | totally absorbed | undertaken | underwritten | warranted | working | wrapped | wrapped in | wrapped up | wrapped up in See Also | Engaged In Webster's Dictionary \En*gaged"\, a.
1. Occupied; employed; busy.
2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections
pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the
engaged ships continued the fight.
{Engaged column}. (Arch.) Same as {Attached column}. See
under {Attach}, v. t.
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