different between engaged vs interactive

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

inter- +? active

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?nt??ækt?v/
• Rhymes: -ækt?v

Adjective

interactive (comparative more interactive, superlative most interactive)

1. Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.

   interactive teaching methods

   two interactive systems

2. (computer science) Responding to the user.

   interactive user interface

Derived terms

• interaction
• interactivity

Translations

Noun

interactive (plural interactives)

1. A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.

French

Adjective

interactive

1. feminine singular of interactif