Synonyms of the word

engagement

• n. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform.
• n. (uncountable) connection or attachment.
• n. (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) the feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected…
• n. (countable, uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
• n. (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
• n. (fencing, countable) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective…

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

appointment

• n. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
• n. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
• n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
• n. An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
• n. Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
• n. (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate…
• n. (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment…
• n. (now in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
• n. (US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.

battle

• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
• n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
• n. A struggle; a contest.
• n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
• n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
• v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
• v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

betrothal

• n. The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a…

booking

• v. present participle of book.
• n. The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
• n. A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
• n. The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
• n. (sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card…
• n. (law) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following…

conflict

• n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
• n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

date

• n. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft,…
• n. The date palm.
• n. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month,…
• n. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given…
• n. A point in time.
• n. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
• n. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
• n. A pre-arranged meeting.
• n. One's companion for social activities or occasions.
• n. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
• v. (transitive) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
• v. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
• v. (transitive) To determine the age of something.
• v. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
• v. (intransitive) To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing…
• v. (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

employment

• n. A use, purpose.
• n. The act of employing.
• n. The state of being employed.
• n. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid.
• n. An activity to which one devotes time.
• n. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

impinging

• v. present participle of impinge.

interlocking

• v. present participle of interlock.
• n. (railways) An arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through a set of tracks…

involution

• n. Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
• n. (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its…
• n. (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
• n. (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

involvement

• n. The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

meeting

• v. present participle of meet.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet.
• n. A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
• n. The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
• n. An encounter between people, even accidental.
• n. A place or instance of junction or intersection.
• n. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
• n. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

mesh

• n. A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly…
• n. The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing…
• n. The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
• n. A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having…
• n. (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.
• v. To fit in, to come together.
• v. To catch in a mesh.

meshing

• v. present participle of mesh.
• n. The act by which something meshes or interlocks.

participation

• n. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
• n. The state of being related to a larger whole.
• n. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity…
• n. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

striking

• adj. Making a strong impression.
• v. present participle of strike.
• n. The act by which something strikes or is struck.

troth

• n. (archaic) An oath, promise, or pledge.
• n. Specifically, a promise or pledge to marry someone.
• n. The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.