Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
US:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ɪn.ˈɡeɪdʒ/
- IPA: /ɛn.ˈɡeɪdʒ/
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To draw into conversation.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- (heading) To interact antagonistically.
- (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- (intransitive) To enter into battle.
- (heading) To interact contractually.
- (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- (obsolete, transitive) To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
- (heading) To interact mechanically.
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.
- (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
Esimerkit
- The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
- The situation was saved by the advance of 13th Corps, which began engaging enemy positions along the coast on 22 November. (BBC)
- Barr engaged his attackers, only to find that his guns had jammed.
- Descending lower to avoid a collision, Slapak engaged his afterburner and broke ahead of Dotan.
- She engaged (hired) him to work for two months.
- If you'd only engage the children, they wouldn't get into trouble.
- Engage the motor, and let’s get started.
- She just got engaged.
- “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
- Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage.
- Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out.
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
- They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.
- 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.
- a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
- Good nature engages everybody to him.
- the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | engaged |
| Imperfekti | engaged |
| Partisiipin preesens | engaging |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | engages |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | engageth (vanhahtava) |