Engage means to bind, catch, or involve. If your sink is stopped up, engage, or hire, a plumber to fix it. Otherwise the smell of rotten food in the garbage disposal will engage your attention (in a bad way).
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
Verb
get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged"
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engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
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give to in marriage
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keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
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engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let''s rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
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as of aid, help, services, or support
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carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in; "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion"
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as of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"
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ask to represent; of legal counsel; "I''m retaining a lawyer"
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engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"
v. t.
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under
obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or
promise; to bind by contract or promise.
v. t.
To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to
enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for
service.
v. t.
To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to
draw.
v. t.
To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to
engross; to draw on.
v. t.
To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to
conflict.
v. t.
To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel
engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other
part.
v. i.
To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an
obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
v. i.
To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or
involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to
engage in controversy.
v. i.
To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies
engaged in a general battle.
v. i.
To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
Engage
Good nature engages everybody to him.4.
Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage.
Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation.5.
A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy.6.
Engage
How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not.2.
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
Usage Examples
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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