(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.
Printed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Print
Example Sentences:
(1) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(2) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
(3) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(5) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
(6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
(7) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(8) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(9) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(10) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.
(11) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(12) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(13) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
(14) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(15) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
(16) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(17) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
(18) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
(19) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
(20) But printing money year after year to pay for things you can’t afford doesn’t work – and no good Keynesian would ever call for it.