different between engagement vs tryst
engagement
English
Etymology
From French engagement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n??e?d??.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: en?gage?ment
Noun
engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)
- (countable) An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
- The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
- (uncountable) Connection or attachment.
- Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
- (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
- (countable, uncountable) The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
- We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
- (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
- The engagement resulted in many casualties.
- (fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
- After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
Synonyms
- commitment
- action
Antonyms
- apathy
- disengagement
Derived terms
- engagement ring
- disengagement
Related terms
- engage
Translations
See also
- battle
- campaign
References
French
Etymology
engager +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.?a?.m??/
Noun
engagement m (plural engagements)
- commitment
- engagement
Further reading
- “engagement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
engagement m (plural engagements)
- (Jersey) engagement
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tryst
English
Etymology
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traust? (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *dr?- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??st/, /t?a?st/
- Rhymes: -?st, -a?st
Noun
tryst (plural trysts)
- A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ?ISBN, 9781862078550)
- If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
Translations
Verb
tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)
- (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
Translations
Anagrams
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