engaged

Examples

• All

• The gears were engaged and functioning smoothly, allowing the machine to operate efficiently.

• But when you pull this out it's still engaged with the balls in the block.

• So after it's up and engaged, you can push it down so it's away.

• I want to have an additional light that shows me when the switch is engaged because it's not always obvious.

  Laura Kampf

• All right, again, we're setting up, right low backs engaged, stomach, abs and core engaged in tight, we're lifting.

• And when you constantly keep that engaged and mobilized membership, you're ready to strike.

• The, the cool thing about a number of these is that there's actually different neural circuits engaged with these different approaches.

• So we've got this spinning cutter here and it's engaged into the stock and we're going to push it in a in a linear direction through the material.

• He checked that all parts were engaged before starting the assembly process.

Synonyms

C

coupled

vsengaged

7 3.5

Two items joined together physically, like vehicles or parts used as a pair

means linked and actively working together rather than just connected

I

interlocking

vsengaged

1 5.5

Fitting parts together so they move as one

stresses active interworking rather than only preventing independent movement

M

meshed

vsengaged

• Specialized

1 5.8

Joined so their teeth fit together and turn smoothly

is about active working together rather than only transmitting motion

I

intermeshed

vsengaged

• Specialized

7.4

Fitting together like gears so each part moves the other

is about active working together rather than just physical joining

Antonyms

D

disengaged

• Specialized

8 4.4

Not physically connected or locked so parts can move apart

Idioms

O

otherwise engaged

5 4.6

Busy with something else and not available

How Interlocked

meshed

• Specialized

1 5.8

engaged

• Specialized

1 7.0

disengaged

• Specialized

8 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology