| engaging |
| 1. adj. That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling. | |
| I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read. | |
| 2. adj. Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour. | |
| Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality — or at least the ability to fake one — are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition. | |
| 3. v. present participle of engage | |
| engage |
| 1. v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially. | |
| 2. v. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. | |
| 3. v. To draw into conversation. | |
| 4. v. To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone). | |
| 5. v. To interact antagonistically.: | |
| 6. v. To enter into conflict with (an enemy). | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To enter into battle. | |
| 8. v. To interact contractually.: | |
| 9. v. To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.). | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something). | |
| 11. v. To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive). | |
| They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land). | |
| 13. v. To interact mechanically.: | |
| 14. v. To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch). | |
| Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out. | |
| 15. v. (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with. | |
| The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in). | |
| charming |
| 1. adj. pleasant, charismatic | |
| 2. adj. delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm | |
| 3. v. present participle of charm | |
| 4. n. The casting of a magical charm. | |
| charm |
| 1. n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). | |
| a charm against evil | |
| It works like a charm. | |
| 2. n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural. | |
| He had great personal charm. | |
| She tried to win him over with her charms. | |
| 3. n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer. | |
| She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist. | |
| 4. n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks. | |
| 5. n. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time. | |
| 6. v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something. | |
| He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor. | |
| 7. v. To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence. | |
| After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed. | |
| 8. v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences. | |
| She led a charmed life. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon. | |
| 10. v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. | |
| 11. n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children. | |
| 12. n. A flock, group (especially of finches). | |
