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OCCUPIED
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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:
Resided in; having tenants
Example:
not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up
Synonyms:
occupied; tenanted
Classified under:
Similar:
inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Held or filled or in use
Example:
the wc is occupied
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
busy; engaged; in use ((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))
filled ((of time) taken up)
Antonym:
unoccupied (not held or filled or in use)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Seized and controlled as by military invasion
Example:
the occupied countries of Europe
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
unoccupied (not seized and controlled)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb occupy
Context examples:
Granting that his whole journey was occupied in drawing up the will, then the train was an express, only stopping once between Norwood and London Bridge.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object or intended for a physical object.
(Place, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic form of the K-ras protein containing any one of a number of point mutations at position 12 which is normally occupied by glycine (GLY).
(K-RAS GLY-12 Mutant Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
The lodger occupied two rooms at the vicarage, which were in an angle by themselves, the one above the other.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The movement of one cell type into an area normally occupied by a different cell type.
(Invasion, NCI Thesaurus)
A SI derived unit of specific volume, a property of materials defined as the number of cubic meters occupied by one kilogram of a particular substance.
(Cubic Meter per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)
The bed, against the rear wall, occupied two-thirds of the total space of the room.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I remarked to her, however, before I fell asleep, that the cottage was now occupied, to which she returned no reply.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Up to 100 of them occupied every available rock in the area.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
