different between engage vs eng

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

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also confer Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).

Adjective

eng

1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Middle English Dictionary
• bosworthtoller.com

Etymology 2

Noun

eng (plural engs)

1. Roman alphabet ?: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.

Synonyms

• agma
• (?): engma

Anagrams

• -gen, GEN, Gen, Gen., gen, gen., neg, neg.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *anga, related to Lithuanian angùs (“sluggish, lazy, idle”), éngti (“to strangle”), Latvian îgt (“to wear off, to languish”), and Gothic ???????????????????????? (aggwus, “narrow”).

Adjective

eng m (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

Synonyms

• shtemët

Related terms

• ang

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?/, [???]

Noun

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “eng” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “eng” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Hyphenation: eng
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch enge, from Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?én??us. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. narrow
2. small
3. scary, creepy

Inflection

Derived terms

• doodeng
• engte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eng
• ?? English: eng

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch enc.

Noun

eng m (plural engen)

1. Alternative form of enk.

Anagrams

• gen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

1. narrow, tight

Declension

Related terms

• Angst
• enganliegend
• engbefreundet
• Enge
• engen
• Engheit
• engherzig
• Engelaut
• Engpaß
• engsichtig

Further reading

• “eng” in Duden online

Kosraean

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *a?in, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ha?in. Compare Tagalog hangin, Malagasy anina, Pohnpeian ahng, Fijian cagi, Tongan angi, Samoan agi, Hawaiian ani.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?/

Noun

eng

1. wind

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?/

Article

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article; a, an

   Si huet zwéin Hënn an eng Kaz

   She has two dogs and a cat

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

eng

1. Nonstandard spelling of ?ng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eng

Noun

eng f or m (definite singular enga or engen, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Derived terms

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

References

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

eng f (definite singular enga, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Inflection

References

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??/, [????]

Determiner

?ng

1. Alternative form of ?nich

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• engi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angij? f.

Noun

eng f or n

1. meadow

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• eng1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eng2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Uzbek

Etymology

From Old Turkic ????? (? /e?/). Cognate with Azerbaijani ?n, Kyrgyz ?? (eñ), Turkish en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adverb

eng

1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

eng f (plural engiau)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ng.

Mutation

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i/i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u/u bedol, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd ^{(Category: cy:Latin letter names)}