Engage

Definition

engage /Çn'geÇdʒ/ v ၁။ ( fml ) ခန္႔သည္။ ငွားသည္။ engage a new secretary ❍ He's been engaged to conduct a series of concerts at the Albert Hall. ❍ She was engaged as an interpreter. ၂။ ( fml ) ဆြဲေဆာင္သည္။ စိတ္ပါဝင္စားေစသည္။ Nothing engages his attention for long. ❍ We failed to engage any active support for the project. ၃။ ( fml ) တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္သည္။ စစ္ထိုးသည္။ Our orders are to engage (the enemy) immediately. ❍ Battle was engaged. Compare DISENGAGE ၂ ၄။ ~ (with sth) စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္။ ထိေတြ႕မႈရိွသည္။ အာ႐ံုစိုက္သည္။ engage with modern art ❍ A good politician must engage with people's real concerns. ၅။ (က) ~ (with sth) အံက်ျဖစ္ သည္။ အပ္မိသည္။ The two cog-wheels engaged and the machine started. ❍ One cog-wheel engages with another. (ခ) စက္အစိတ္အပိုင္းခ်င္း ခ်ိတ္ဆက္မိ ေစသည္။ engage the clutch/first gear (ကား) ကလပ္ကို နင္းပါ၊ ပထမ ဂီယာကို ထိုးပါ။ Compare DISENGAGE ၁ ❏ engage (sb) in sth [ PHRV ] ပါဝင္သည္။ I have no time to engage in gossip. ❍ be engaged in politics/business ❍ They are currently engaged in lengthy trade negotiations. ❍ I engaged him in conversation.

Examples

1. A good radio script should be able to engage the listener.
2. The company is to engage a new sales director.
3. [engage someone to do something] : A magician has been engaged to provide entertainment.
4. A microswitch in the gear stick automatically engages and disengages the clutch.
5. The mechanism failed to engage
6. causing a fault.