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Engaged vs Included - What's the difference?

engaged | included |

As verbs the difference between engaged and included

is that engaged is (engage) while included is (include).

As an adjective engaged

is agreed to be married.

engaged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (engage)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (of a telephone) (US) busy

    Related terms

    * engage * engagement

    See also

    * (agreed to be married)

    Statistics

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    included

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (include)

    • include

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enclude (obsolete)

    Verb

    (includ)
  • To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
    • I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
  • To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
    • The vacation package includes car rental.
    Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?
    I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
    up to and including page twenty-five
  • * Milton
    • The whole included race, his purposed prey.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
  • (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.107:
    • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
  • (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

    Antonyms

    * exclude

    Related terms

    * inclusion (noun) * inclusive (adjective) * includable * includible * include me out * reinclude

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
  • * 2006 , Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
    • In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes , which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.

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