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ENGAGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
Example:
deeply engaged in conversation
Synonyms:
engaged; occupied
Classified under:
Similar:
busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Built against or attached to a wall
Example:
engaged columns
Classified under:
Similar:
connected (joined or linked together)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having services contracted for
Example:
the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
employed (having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
Example:
intermeshed twin rotors
Synonyms:
engaged; intermeshed; meshed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
geared (equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Involved in military hostilities
Example:
the desperately engaged ships continued the fight
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
involved (connected by participation or association or use)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(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)
Example:
kept getting a busy signal
Synonyms:
busy; engaged; in use
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
occupied (held or filled or in use)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Reserved in advance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
reserved (set aside for the use of a particular person or party)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb engage
Context examples:
She generally came at the hour when Mr. Rivers was engaged in giving his daily catechising lesson.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I thought you knew. Why, we're engaged, Martin and I.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The NCI Cancer Centers Program comprises more than 50 NCI-designated cancer centers engaged in multidisciplinary research to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality.
(National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program, NCI Thesaurus)
Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor.
(Laborer, NCI Thesaurus)
I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Informatics nurses are engaged in clinical practice, education, consultation, research, administration, and pure informatics. (ANCC).
(Informatics Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
A person qualified to be engaged in activity directed at preservation of mental and physical health by diseases prevention and treatment as a source of livelihood.
(Health Care Professional, NCI Thesaurus)
Terminology relevant to the state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.
(CDISC SDTM Employment Status Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
After the BCR has been engaged by antigen and the activation response has been initiated, numerous second messengers and intermediate signal transducing proteins are activated.
(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
