(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)
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engaged::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | intermeshed, meshed |
the gears are engaged.
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| Synonyms | occupied |
deeply engaged in conversation.
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engaged columns.
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the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick.
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the desperately engaged ships continued the fight.
Examples of engaged
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Students used the snowshoes and engaged in science experiments at the same time.
From the desmoinesregister.com
In sum, almost anything goes in the effort to keep them entertained and engaged.
From the newsweek.com
The Collaborative Discovery Engine engaged 1,200 of their most valued customers.
From the techcrunch.com
Each was engaged in turf battles with the CIA and the National Security Council.
From the stltoday.com
Oddly, she has to become very present, very engaged, in order for this to occur.
From the stltoday.com
They drove a short distance to a residential street and engaged in lewd conduct.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Syria also has engaged in multiple rounds of peace talks, most recently in 2008.
From the thenewstribune.com
The pair, with their single-camera eyeballs, have engaged youngsters with sport.
From the independent.co.uk
This organization has engaged our services to search for a Senior Produce Buyer.
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- Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"
- Involved in military hostilities; "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"
- Booked: reserved in advance
- Busy: (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"
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting; "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors"
- Having services contracted for; "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
- "Engaged" is Alisa Mizuki's twenty fourth single, released on February 6, 2008. It is her first single in over two and half years and her first solo single in five years. Engaged was used as ending theme of the NTV drama Saito-san, starring Mizuki herself.
- Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, inside the womb of a female. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets. Human pregnancy is the most studied of all mammalian pregnancies. ...
- Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on 3 October 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer, one of Gilbert's comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the collaborators' great success in H.M.S. Pinafore. ...
