different between engaged vs engager

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

Etymology

engage +? -er.

Noun

engager (plural engagers)

1. One who, or that which, engages.

2. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
   • 1834, George Godfrey Cunningham, Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen

     Several sufficient citizens were engagers.

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French engagier (“to pawn, make a pledge, plight”), from en- + gage (“pledge”), from Late Latin vadium (“pledge”), from Frankish *wadja (“pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *wadj?, *wadj? (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“guarantee, bail”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wedde (“property, pay”), Old High German wetti (“collateral, security agreement”), Gothic ???????????????? (wadi), ???????????????????? (wadja, “guarantee”), Old English wedd (“pledge, vow”). More at wed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a.?e/

Verb

engager

1. to pledge, commit
2. to hire, sign, snap up
3. to involve
4. to encourage
5. to pawn
6. (military) to enlist
7. to enter into (as, e.g., a conversation)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written engage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• engagement
• engagiste

Descendants

• ? Italian: ingaggiare
• ? Portuguese: engajar
• ? Romanian: angaja
• ? Turkish: angaje

Further reading

• “engager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• regagne, regagné

Old French

Verb

engager

1. Alternative form of engagier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /d?/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.