different between engage vs recall

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

Alternative forms

• recal (obsolete)
• (to call again): re-call

Etymology

From re- +? call, probably modelled on Latin revoc?re, French rappeler, English withcall.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??l/
• (General American) enPR: r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA^(key): /???k?l/, /?i?k?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Hyphenation: re?call

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?k??l/
• (General American) enPR: ?r??kôl, r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA^(key): /??i?k?l/, /?i?k?l/, /???k?l/
• Rhymes: -i?k??l, -??l
• Hyphenation: re?call

Verb

recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)

1. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant

2. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
4. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
5. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
6. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
7. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]

Translations

Noun

recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)

1. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
   1. Request of the return of a faulty product.

   2. (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

   3. (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
2. Memory; the ability to remember.
3. (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

   Synonym: sensitivity

Translations

Further reading

• product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caller, cellar

Portuguese

Noun

recall m (plural recalls)

1. recall (return of faulty products)