Engaged vs Energized - What's the difference?
engaged | energized |
(engage)
Agreed to be married.
Busy or employed.
(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
(energize)
To invigorate, to make energetic.
To supply with energy, especially electricity. To turn on power to something.
(obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
* J. C. Shairp
As verbs the difference between engaged and energized
is that engaged is (engage) while energized is (energize).As an adjective engaged
is agreed to be married.engaged
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I tried calling, but she (''or'' her phone) was engaged .
Synonyms
* (of a telephone) (US) busySee also
* (agreed to be married)Statistics
*energized
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*energize
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Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English ) energiseVerb
(energiz)- Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
- Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.