Engaged vs Connected - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between engaged and connected

is that engaged is past tense of engage while connected is past tense of connect.

is that engaged is agreed to be married while connected is (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.

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(engage)

(-)

Agreed to be married.

Busy or employed.

(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls

I tried calling, but she (''or'' her phone) was engaged .

(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

* (of a telephone) (US) busy

(en adjective)

(usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.

(mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.

(mathematics, graph theory, of a directed graph) Having a path, either directed]] or undirected, connecting every pair of [[vertex, vertices.

* disconnected

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(connect)