(v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
(v. t.) To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
(v. t.) To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
(v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
(v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
(v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
(v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
(v. i.) To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
(v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
(v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
(3) In this study we were engaged on the pharmacokinetics of fosfestrol (Honvan) after oral administration.
(4) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(7) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(8) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(9) Engagement in reminiscing may be stable during old age or may follow a developmental course.
(10) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(11) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(12) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(13) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(14) The findings may have a more general significance in relation to the site of engagement between processed antigen and MHC molecules in specialized antigen-presenting cells.
(15) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(16) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
(17) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
(18) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(20) The patient was engaged in the magistraliter preparations of medicaments in a pharmacy.
Enlist
Definition:
(v. t.) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
(v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
(v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
(v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
(v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(2) Thus, the school, church, community and social agencies have all been enlisted in this task.
(3) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(4) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(5) How can we let our girls, one-quarter of our population, be damaged for life by sexual abuse?” Bansal enlisted the support of the Recovery and Healing from Incest Foundation (Rahi) , an NGO that works with child abuse survivors to train police officers.
(6) We studied drinking patterns and problems of 451 US Army enlisted men after their return from Vietnam.
(7) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(8) The directive seeks to tackle head on the industry's attempts to enlist young people as smokers by introducing graphic warnings and banning flavouring and other enhancements.
(9) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
(10) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
(11) The workshop is designed to help family and friends become useful, long-term resources for patients with recurrent depression and to enlist their assistance in the treatment study.
(12) The analysis presented here enlists two of these approaches, each in modified form, to develop a highly efficient search protocol for Escherichia coli promoters and to provide a relative ranking of these sites showing good agreement with in vitro measurements of promoter strength.
(13) An enlisted US army reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday.
(14) To demonstrate whether a reduction in clinically significant adverse outcomes truly occurs with LOM, trials will need to enlist larger numbers of patients and employ appropriate outcome measures.
(15) In this connection, it was found to be very useful to enlist the help of the nurse or male nurse as co-leader of the group.
(16) The diagnosis and management of headache in children is a challenge to the clinician, covering as it does a wide range of diagnostic possibilities and enlisting a range of skills from neurosurgery and infectious disease to the psychological.
(17) Only 2 of 155 soldiers enlisted in 1986 and 1987 meeting these criteria were separated for seizure-related complaints.
(18) Results indicated the following: 1) at some point during the exercises, everyone became sleep deprived; 2) the participants who received the most rest of the group were the enlisted headquarters personnel and the pilots; 3) the soldiers who received the least amount of sleep were the commander of the battalion and the maintenance personnel.
(19) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
(20) Because of the multiplier effects of SCOR programs, new investigators have been enlisted into arthritis research as issues related to this disease become a focus of investigation throughout universities and medical centers.