Engage vs Speech - What's the difference?
engage | speech |
To interact socially.
#To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage .
#To draw into conversation.
#*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
#*:the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
#To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Good nature engages everybody to him.
(lb) To interact antagonistically.
#(lb) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
#*(Fitz Hugh Ludlow) (1836-1870)
#*:a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
#(lb) To enter into battle.
(lb) To interact contractually.
#(lb) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
#*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 #(lb) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
#(lb) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
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# To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
(lb) To interact mechanically.
#To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
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# To come into gear with.
(label) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
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A style of speaking.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A dialect or language.
* Bible, (w) iii. 6
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
As a verb engage
is .As a noun speech is
spoke (part of a wheel).engage
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(wikipedia engage)Alternative forms
* ingage (obsolete)Verb
(engag)citation, passage=For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged , and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.}}
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage .
- The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
Antonyms
* (to cause to mesh or interlock) disengageDerived terms
* engagement * disengage * disengagement ----speech
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Noun
(wikipedia speech)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.