engaged

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   built against or attached to a wall

   engaged columns

2. 2
   adj

   having services contracted for

   the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick

3. 3
   adj

   (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

   the gears are engaged

4. 4
   adj

   involved in military hostilities

   the desperately engaged ships continued the fight

5. 5
   adj

   (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability

   (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

6. 6
   adj

   Busy or employed.

   Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?

7. 7
   adj

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

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

8. 8
   adj

   Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).

   Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.