Слово англійською: engage
Дієслово
Переклад engage українською: займа́тися чим (дія́льністю і т. д.), залуча́ти, залучи́ти (до робо́ти), заціка́вити кого́ чим (пробуди́ти ціка́вість)
Детальний опис
- [transitive] engage something/somebody (formal) to succeed in attracting and keeping somebody’s attention and interest
- It is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.
- Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
- to engage the public/audience/viewer/reader
- It was difficult to engage the students at first.
- The party is attempting to engage young voters politically.
- [transitive] (formal) to employ a person, company, etc. to do a particular job
- engage somebody/something She has already engaged a lawyer.
- We will have to engage the services of a translator.
- engage somebody/something as something He was immediately engaged as a consultant.
- engage somebody/something to do something Karl Böhm engaged her to sing in Vienna.
- [intransitive] engage (with something/somebody) to become involved with and try to understand something/somebody
- She has the ability to engage with young minds.
- [transitive, intransitive] (formal) to begin fighting with somebody
- engage somebody He ordered his men to engage the enemy.
- engage with somebody The fleet sailed out of Cadiz to engage with the enemy.
opposite disengage - [intransitive, transitive] when a part of a machine engages, or when you engage it, it fits together with another part of the machine and the machine begins to work
- The cogwheels are not engaging.
- engage with something One cogwheel engages with the next.
- engage something Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.
Word Originlate Middle English (formerly also as ingage): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage, ‘a pledge or deposit offered as a guarantee’. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something)’, hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th cent.), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th cent.), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.
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