What does engaged mean?
Definitions for engaged
ɛnˈgeɪdʒden·gaged
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word engaged.
Princeton's WordNet
engaged, occupiedadjective
having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
"she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"
engagedadjective
involved in military hostilities
"the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"
booked, engaged, set-aside(p)adjective
reserved in advance
busy, engaged, in use(p)adjective
(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"
engaged, meshed, intermeshedadjective
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
"the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors"
engagedadjective
having services contracted for
"the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
engagedadjective
built against or attached to a wall
"engaged columns"
Wiktionary
engagedadjective
Agreed to be married.
engagedadjective
Busy or employed.
engagedadjective
Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls it
engagedadjective
attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
engagedadjective
in contact and in operation
Webster Dictionary
Engaged
of Engage
Engagedadjective
occupied; employed; busy
Engagedadjective
pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed
Engagedadjective
greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest
Engagedadjective
involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight
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Engaged
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. Engaged was well received on the London stage and then in New York City, where the first production of the play opened in February 1879. The work then enjoyed many revivals on both sides of the Atlantic and continues to be produced today. Engaged has been W. S. Gilbert's most popular stage work aside from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. A New York Times review of an 1886 production of Engaged noted that "the laughter was almost incessant." Makers wrote: "Engaged [is] unquestionably the finest and funniest English comedy between Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which it directly inspired". Engaged may also have inspired George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.
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Rank popularity for the word 'engaged' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3576
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of engaged in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of engaged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of engaged in a Sentence
Regardless of what else was going on at home or in other parts of the world – during Democratic and Republican administrations, in times of surplus and deficit, war and peace – the United States has remained economically, politically, and militarily engaged, as well as geographically located in the Asia-Pacific.
Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days, we are talking about additional sanctions, about additional efforts, and I'm confident over the next days people will make it clear that we are not going to play this game.
Yes, we are engaged, but for us, it's not new news, you know, so it's kind of funny. Everyone right now is freaking out over it and we're like, 'Yeah, we've been engaged for a while.'.
I have been engaged in an effort to thoughtfully and honestly share this important story since I arrived in Richmond, i have provided the same educational tour to Executive Mansion visitors over the last few months and used a variety of artifacts and agricultural crops with the intention of illustrating a painful period of Virginia history. I regret that I have upset anyone.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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- مخطوب, مخطوبة, خطبArabic
- сгоден, заетBulgarian
- zasnoubenýCzech
- forlovet, optagetDanish
- besetzt, verlobtGerman
- ocupado, comunicado, comprometidoSpanish
- varattu, kihloissa, kihloihinFinnish
- fiancé, engagé, fiancéeFrench
- מאורסHebrew
- fidanzata, impegnato, fidanzato, impegnataItalian
- 使用中, 婚約Japanese
- occupatosLatin
- bezet, in gesprek, verloofdDutch
- forlovetNorwegian
- narzeczony, narzeczonaPolish
- noivo, ocupado, contratadoPortuguese
- занятый, помолвленная, обручённый, обручённая, помолвленныйRussian
- förlovad, upptagenSwedish
- nişanlı, sözlü, meşgulTurkish
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