engagement

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Engagement

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EtymologyEdit

From French engagement.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Hyphenation: en‧gage‧ment
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NounEdit

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engagement

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engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)

(countable) An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
(uncountable) Connection or attachment.
Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
(uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.^[1]
(countable, uncountable) The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
(countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
The engagement resulted in many casualties.
(fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.

SynonymsEdit

AntonymsEdit

apathy

disengagement

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

engage

TranslationsEdit

appointment

Bulgarian: ангажимент (bg) m (angažiment)
Finnish: esiintyminen (fi)
German: Verpflichtung (de) f
Italian: impegno (it)

Portuguese: compromisso (pt) m
Romanian: angajament (ro) n
Russian: ангажеме́нт (ru) m (angažemént)

connection or attachment

Finnish: kytkentä, kytkeytyminen (fi)
German: Bindung (de) f

Russian: сцепле́ние (ru) n (sceplénije), зацепле́ние (ru) n (zaceplénije)
Welsh: dyweddïad m

feeling (about human emotional state)

Finnish: osallistuminen (fi)

Russian: вовлечённость (ru) n (vovlečónnostʹ)

period of time when marriage is planned or promised

Arabic: خِطْبَة‎ f (ḵiṭba), خُطُوبَة‎ f (ḵuṭūba)
Aromanian: isozmã f, arãvoanã f
Bulgarian: годеж m (godež)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 婚約 (zh), 婚约 (zh) (hūnyuē), 訂婚 (zh), 订婚 (zh) (dìnghūn)
Czech: zasnoubení n
Danish: forlovelse (da) c
Esperanto: fianĉiĝo
Finnish: kihlausaika, kihlaus (fi)
French: fiançailles (fr) f pl
German: Verlobung (de) f, Verlöbnis (de) n
Greek: μνηστεία (el) f (mnisteía), αρραβώνας (el) m (arravónas)
Hebrew: אֵרוּסִין / אירוסים‎ (he) (erusim)
Hungarian: eljegyzés (hu)
Irish: gealltanas pósta m
Italian: fidanzamento (it) m
Japanese: 婚約 (ja) (こんやく, kon'yaku)
Korean: 약혼 (ko) (yakhon) (約婚 (ko)), 혼약 (ko) (honyak)

Latin: sponsālia n pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forlovelse (no) m
Polish: zaręczyny (pl) f pl
Portuguese: noivado (pt) m
Romanian: logodire (ro) f, logodnă (ro) f
Russian: помо́лвка (ru) f (pomólvka), обруче́ние (ru) n (obručénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐридба f, за̑руке f pl

Roman: vèridba (sh) f, zȃruke (sh) f pl
Spanish: noviazgo (es) m
Swahili: uchumba (sw)
Swedish: förlovning (sv) c
Tagalog: talimbuhol
Turkish: nişan (tr)
Vietnamese: sự đính hôn (vi) (sự + 訂婚), hôn ước (vi) (婚約)
Welsh: dyweddïad m

instance of active hostilities

Bulgarian: сраже́ние (bg) n (sražénie)
Finnish: yhteenotto (fi)
German: Gefecht (de) n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trefning f

Portuguese: combate (pt) m
Russian: сраже́ние (ru) n (sražénije), сты́чка (ru) n (stýčka), схва́тка (ru) f (sxvátka), бой (ru) m (boj)

in fencing

Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)

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Translations to be checked

Norman: ^{(please verify)} engagement m (Jersey)

ReferencesEdit

^ Emery Schubert; Kim Vincs, Catherine J. Stevens (2013), “Identifying Regions of Good Agreement among Responders in Engagement with a Piece of Live Dance”, in Empirical Studies of the Arts‎^[1], volume 31, issue 1, DOI:https://doi.org/10.2190/EM.31.1.a, pages 4