different between hired vs engaged

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ha??d/

Verb

hired

1. simple past tense and past participle of hire

Anagrams

• hider, rehid, rheid

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *h?war?d (“family, marriage”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to be lying down”). Cognate with Old High German h?r?t (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English h?wen (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xi?.red/, [?hi?.red]

Noun

h?red m

1. family, household
2. retinue
3. company, brotherhood

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hird
  • English: hird

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