All 18 Uses
engage
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Our own ships will engage in a major exercise to locate us and at the same time to befuddle the arrogant imperialist navies.†
Chpt 2.
- Shall we engage the caterpillar?†
Chpt 2.
- Comrade Chief Engineer, prepare to engage the caterpillar.†
Chpt 2.
- Engage caterpillar.†
Chpt 2.
- Their army and air force—except for maritime surveillance aircraft—and their Pacific Fleet are engaged in routine training operations.†
Chpt 6.
- Parker stuffed the bag into it, slamming the door shut behind it, making sure the locking lever was fully engaged.†
Chpt 7.
- We have no wish to interfere with whatever legitimate operations your forces may be engaged in.†
Chpt 8.
- Soviet tactical doctrine seemed to call for them mainly in defensive roles: as "interceptor submarines" they could protect their own missile subs, and with their high speed they could engage American attack submarines, then evade counterattack.†
Chpt 8.
- We do that by dialing this selector, which engages one of ten electrical resistors of increasing value.†
Chpt 9. *
- Both pilots advanced their engine controls and engaged their afterburners, which dumped raw fuel into the tail pipes of their new F-110 engines.†
Chpt 10.
- They heard the DSRV disengage and motor off.†
Chpt 14.disengage = stop interacting; or stop having intereststandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengage means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engage as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- Gradually the officers were beginning to engage in conversation.†
Chpt 15.
- Melekhin, Surzpoi, and Bugayev worked for hours attempting to engage our auxiliary power systems.†
Chpt 16.
- At the time I was happily engaged writing books on naval history.†
Chpt 16.
- Both attack submarines were operating under the normal rules of engagement.†
Chpt 17.
- In a minute the caterpillar motors were engaged and speed was increasing slowly.†
Chpt 17.
- The goddamned rules of engagement prevented him from doing a goddamned thing, except, maybe— "Sonar, ping the sonuvabitch!†
Chpt 17.
- And, he thought on, if the Alfa shoots then, I kill the fucker, and rules of engagement be damned.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(engage as in: engage in conversation) to interact in various ways -- such as to participate, involve, interest, or attractThe exact meaning of this sense of engage depends upon its context. For example:
- "They engaged in debate." -- participated
- "She engaged him in conversation." -- involved
- "She is an engaging conversationalist." -- interesting
- "She has an engaging smile." -- attractive (attracting interest and interaction)
- "The proposal engages the interest of many young voters." -- attracts and involves
- "She engages with her constituents." -- interacts in a meaningful way
- "She engaged in foolish behavior." -- entered into
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(2)
(engage as in: engage her services) hire, reserve, book, or occupy
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(3)
(engaged as in: engaged and then married) promised to marry
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(4)
(engage as in: engage the enemy) begin fighting
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(5)
(engage as in: engage the gears) move into position to work; or start
- (6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)