形容词

Joe's Date-(乔的约会)

1. 从事…的;忙于…的
Someone who is engaged in or engaged on a particular activity is doing that thing.

2. 订婚的
When two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry each other.

3. （电话）占线的
If a telephone or a telephone line is engaged, it is already being used by someone else so that you are unable to speak to the person you are phoning.

1. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

e.g. she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities
deeply engaged in conversation

Synonym: occupied

2. built against or attached to a wall

e.g. engaged columns

3. having services contracted for

e.g. the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick

4. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

e.g. the gears are engaged
meshed gears
intermeshed twin rotors

Synonym: meshedintermeshed

5. involved in military hostilities

e.g. the desperately engaged ships continued the fight

6. (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)

e.g. her line is busy
receptionists' telephones are always engaged
the lavatory is in use
kept getting a busy signal

Synonym: busyin use(p)

7. reserved in advance

Synonym: bookedset-aside(p)