engage

Verb

1. 1

   To interact socially. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.

   Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age.

2. 2

   To interact socially. To draw into conversation.

   the difficult task of engaging him in conversation

   Shapps refused to engage with the unions and claimed that the industrial disputes were nothing to do with him, despite controlling the purse strings.

3. 3

   To interact socially. To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).

   This humanity and good nature engages every body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them all his family are in a good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: […]

4. 4

   To interact antagonistically. To enter into conflict with (an enemy).

   1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy

   Having failed to become the first warship to shoot down another planet, the fleet would then engage the Italian cruiser screen the next afternoon, with Sydney not scoring any hits on its opposite numbers but managing to damage an Italian destroyer.

5. 5

   To interact antagonistically. To enter into battle.

6. 6

   To interact contractually. To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).

   For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

   Rich Jews used to engage Christian music-teachers to teach their daughters German vocal and instrumental music.

7. 7

   To interact contractually. To guarantee or promise (to do something).

8. 8

   To interact contractually. To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).

   They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.

   […] Love is a ſort of Devotion too, and not only ſhould beget Reſpect, but likevviſe ingage Patience.

9. 9

   veraltetTo interact contractually. To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).

   Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.

10. 10

    To interact mechanically. To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).

    Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out.

    The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.

11. 11

    To interact mechanically. To come into gear with.

    The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.

12. 12

    To interact mechanically. To activate a lock.

    He engaged the lock on the door.

    The lock engaged automatically when the door was shut.

13. 13

    veraltetTo entangle.

Formen

Präteritum

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Partizip II

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Partizip I

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3. Person Singular

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