engage vs wage what difference

what is difference between engage and wage

English

Alternative forms

• ingage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English engagen, from Old French engagier (“to pledge, engage”), from Frankish *anwadjōn (“to pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *an-, *andi- + Proto-Germanic *wadjōną (“to pledge, secure”), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge; guarantee, bail”), equivalent to en- +‎ gage. Cognate with Old English anwedd (“pledge, security”), Old English weddian (“to engage, covenant, undertake”), German wetten (“to bet, wager”), Icelandic veðja (“to wager”). More at wed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/, /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Verb

engage (third-person singular simple present engages, present participle engaging, simple past and past participle engaged)

1. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
   1. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
   2. To draw into conversation.

      • the difficult task of engaging him in conversation

   3. To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).

      • Good nature engages everybody to him.

2. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
   1. (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
      • 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

        a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy

   2. (intransitive) To enter into battle.
3. (heading) To interact contractually.
   1. (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
   2. (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
   3. (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).

   4. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge, pawn (one’s property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

        Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.

4. (heading) To interact mechanically.
   1. To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
   2. (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.

      The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.

5. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
6. (transitive, obsolete) To entangle.

Antonyms

• (to cause to mesh or interlock): disengage

Derived terms

• engagement
• disengage
• disengagement

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/

Verb

engage

1. first-person singular present indicative of engager
2. third-person singular present indicative of engager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engager
5. second-person singular imperative of engager

Anagrams

• gagnée

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic ???????????????? (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.

Noun

wage (plural wages)

1. (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Synonyms

• earnings, pay, salary

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium.

Verb

wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear

     My life I never held but as a pawn
     To wage against thine enemies

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)

2. (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
   • c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1

     I fear the power of Percy is too weak
     To wage an instant trial with the King.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
   • abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers

4. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.

   • 1709, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     pond’ring which of all his Sons was fit
     To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit

5. (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
6. (obsolete, law, Britain) To give security for the performance of.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

Usage notes

• “Wage” collocates strongly with “war”, leading to expressions such as To wage peace, or To wage football implying the inclusion of a large element of conflict in the action.

Derived terms

• wager (agent noun)

Translations

Anagrams

• waeg

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

wage

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wagen

German

Verb

wage

1. inflection of wagen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wāga, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō.

Noun

wâge f

1. weight
2. a certain weight, of which the exact value varied
3. weighing scale
4. weighhouse

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• wâgen

Descendants

• Dutch: waag

Further reading

• “waghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French wage, from Frankish *wadi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Doublet of gage and wed.

Alternative forms

• wag, vage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːdʒ(ə)/

Noun

wage (plural wages)

1. A wage; earnings.
2. Money reserved for the payment of salaries.
3. An earned positive consequence.
4. A promise, pact, or agreement.

Related terms

• wagen

Descendants

• English: wage
• Scots: wage

References

• “wāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Etymology 2

Verb

wage

1. Alternative form of wagen

Old French

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vágr.

Noun

wage f (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wage, nominative plural wages)

1. wave (moving part of a liquid, etc.)

Etymology 2

see gage

Noun

wage m (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wages, nominative plural wage)

1. Alternative form of gage

Proto-Norse

Romanization

wāgē

1. Romanization of ᚹᚨᚷᛖ

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