different between engaged vs connected

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??e?d?d/, /?n??e?d?d/

Verb

engaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of engage

Adjective

engaged (not comparable)

1. Agreed to be married.
2. Busy or employed.
3. Greatly interested.
4. (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls

   I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.

5. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
7. (military) being attacked or attacking
8. (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
   • 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)

     Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

Synonyms

• (of a telephone): (US) busy

Related terms

• engage
• engagement

Translations

See also

• (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n?kt?d/
• Hyphenation: con?nect?ed

Adjective

connected (comparative more connected, superlative most connected)

1. (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
2. Having relationships; involved with others.
3. (Canada, US) involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
4. Intimate; Having bonds of affection.
5. (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
6. (mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.

7. Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.

Antonyms

• disconnected

Hyponyms

Translations

References

• connected on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

connected

1. simple past tense and past participle of connect

References

• connected at OneLook Dictionary Search