different between accede vs engage

English

Etymology

First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin acc?d? (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + c?d? (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?si?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æk?sid/
• Rhymes: -id

Verb

accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th-19th c.]
2. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]
3. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]
4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). [from 18th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 32:

     Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.

5. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

Usage notes

(to agree, to come to an office, to become a party to): Use with the word to afterwards (i.e., accede to).

Synonyms

• (to join a group): band together, enroll
• (agree to a proposal or a view): come around, concede; See also Thesaurus:accede

• agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, (obsolete) comprobate, (obsolete) astipulate

Antonyms

• (to join a group): leave, secede, split off

Derived terms

• accedence
• acceder

Related terms

• accession

Translations

References

• accede in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• acceed

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

accede

1. third-person singular present indicative of accedere

Anagrams

• ecceda

Latin

Verb

acc?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of acc?d?

Spanish

Verb

accede

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of acceder.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of acceder.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of acceder.

English

Alternative forms

• ingage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English engagen, from Old French engagier (“to pledge, engage”), from Frankish *anwadj?n (“to pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *an-, *andi- + Proto-Germanic *wadj?n? (“to pledge, secure”), from Proto-Germanic *wadj? (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed?- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge; guarantee, bail”), equivalent to en- +? gage. Cognate with Old English anwedd (“pledge, security”), Old English weddian (“to engage, covenant, undertake”), German wetten (“to bet, wager”), Icelandic veðja (“to wager”). More at wed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??e?d?/, /?n??e?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Verb

engage (third-person singular simple present engages, present participle engaging, simple past and past participle engaged)

1. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
   1. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
   2. To draw into conversation.

      • the difficult task of engaging him in conversation

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

      • Good nature engages everybody to him.

2. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
   1. (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
      • 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

        a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy

   2. (intransitive) To enter into battle.
3. (heading) To interact contractually.
   1. (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
   2. (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
   3. (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).

   4. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

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

4. (heading) To interact mechanically.
   1. To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
   2. (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.

      The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.

5. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

   • “ […] 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? […]”

6. (transitive, obsolete) To entangle.

Antonyms

• (to cause to mesh or interlock): disengage

Derived terms

• engagement
• disengage
• disengagement

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?/

Verb

engage

1. first-person singular present indicative of engager
2. third-person singular present indicative of engager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engager
5. second-person singular imperative of engager

Anagrams

• gagnée