(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.
Indent
Definition:
(v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
(v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
(v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
(v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
(v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.
(v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
(v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.
(v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
(n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
(n.) A stamp; an impression.
(n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
(n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
(6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
(7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
(9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
(10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
(11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
(12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
(13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
(14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
(15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
(16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
(17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
(18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(19) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
(20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.