📖 E — The English dictionary · page 17

endure — Everyday, meaning 1: To endure is to bear or suffer something hard or painful without giving up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To endure is to last for a long time.↗ Example: The explorers endured terrible cold.↗ · She endured the pain bravely.↗ · Their friendship endured for life.↗ · Love endures all things, the Bible says.↗ · I couldn't endure another boring film.↗ · Pyramids have endured for thousands of years.↗ · The poor things had to endure cold and hunger.↗ · If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.'↗ (Torah EXO.18.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Riches and honour are with me; yea, enduring riches and righteousness.↗ (Writings PRO.8.18, JPS 1917)↗ · For three things the earth doth quake, and for four it cannot endure: (Writings PRO.30.21, JPS 1917)↗ · His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before Me.↗ (Writings PSA.89.37, JPS 1917)↗

enemy — Everyday, meaning 1: An enemy is a person who hates you or wants to harm you, or someone you fight against.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The enemy is the army or country fighting against your side in a war.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An enemy is anything that harms something.↗ e.g. Frost is the enemy of flowers.↗ Example: The knight fought his enemy bravely.↗ · Cats are the natural enemies of mice.↗ · The enemy army came over the hill.↗ · Try not to make enemies at school.↗ · The two kings were enemies for many years.↗ · Batman and the Joker are enemies.↗ · Laziness is the enemy of success.↗ · Suddenly the enemy came in sight.↗ · I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'↗ (Torah NUM.23.11, JPS 1917)↗ · to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.↗ (Torah DEU.6.19, JPS 1917)↗ · For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.↗ (Torah DEU.32.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?↗ (Writings PSA.74.10, JPS 1917)↗ · How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?↗ (Writings PSA.13.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'↗ (Writings PSA.42.10, JPS 1917)↗

energetic — Everyday, meaning 1: An energetic person or animal has lots of energy and is active and lively.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An energetic activity needs a lot of energy and effort, like running or dancing.↗ Example: Puppies are very energetic and love to run.↗ · After a good night's sleep I feel energetic.↗ · We did an energetic warm-up before the race.↗ · The energetic music made everyone dance.↗ · Grandad is still energetic and walks five kilometres every day.↗ · She energetically cleaned the whole kitchen.↗ · Football is a more energetic game than chess.↗ · Manstin was naturally an energetic fellow.↗

energise — Everyday, meaning 1: To make someone feel full of energy, lively and keen.↗ e.g. A walk energises me.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To give electricity to something so it works: energise the circuit.↗ Example: A good breakfast energises me for the day.↗ · The music energised the crowd.↗ · After a swim I feel energised.↗ · The coach's speech energised the team.↗ · Switch on to energise the circuit.↗ · Fresh air energises tired pupils.↗

energy — Everyday, meaning 1: The strength and liveliness to be active.↗ e.g. "I have lots of energy."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, what is needed to make things move, heat up, light up or change.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Power from fuel, electricity, the sun or wind.↗ e.g. "solar energy".↗ Example: Food gives us energy.↗ · The kids are full of energy.↗ · Solar panels turn sunlight into energy.↗ · Turn off lights to save energy.↗ · A moving car has energy.↗ · Wind energy is renewable.↗ · I had no energy after the long walk.↗ · Plants get energy from the Sun.↗ · Still, she was full of courage and energy, and determined that, one way or another, her husband should be saved.↗

enfeeble — Everyday, meaning 1: To enfeeble someone is to make them weak, so they lose their strength.↗ Example: Age had enfeebled the old lion.↗ · The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force.↗ · how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.↗ (Torah DEU.25.18, JPS 1917)↗

enforce — Everyday, meaning 1: To make sure that people obey a law or rule.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make something happen by force or strong pressure: «enforced silence».↗ Example: The police enforce the speed limit near schools.↗ · The referee enforced the offside rule.↗ · The no-phone rule will be strictly enforced.↗ · Lifeguards enforce the "no running" rule at the pool.↗ · The court enforced the payment.↗ · A rule is useless if nobody enforces it.↗

enforceable — Everyday, meaning 1: A rule, law or agreement that is enforceable can really be made to happen: people can be made to obey it, and there is a way to punish or stop those who break it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) A contract is enforceable if a court will make the people in it keep their promises.↗ Example: A rule is only useful if it is enforceable.↗ · A promise made in a playground game is not legally enforceable.↗ · The teacher made the rule enforceable by collecting phones at the door.↗ · Is a ban on running in the corridor enforceable?↗ · The contract is enforceable, so both sides must keep it.↗ · A law against littering is hard to enforce on an empty beach, so it is barely enforceable there.↗

enforced — Everyday, meaning 1: Made to happen or made to be obeyed by people with power, such as police or officials: «The law is strictly enforced.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Forced on someone, not chosen: «an enforced rest», «an enforced break».↗ Example: The speed limit is enforced by cameras.↗ · School rules are enforced by the teachers.↗ · The no-swimming sign was strictly enforced by lifeguards.↗ · After his injury, he had an enforced rest from football.↗ · (formal) The ban will be enforced from Monday.↗ · The snow gave us an enforced day off school.↗

enforcement — Everyday, meaning 1: Enforcement is making sure that people obey a law or a rule, and punishing those who do not.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Law enforcement means the police and other officers whose job is to make people obey the law.↗ Example: Law enforcement officers arrived at the scene.↗ · Speed cameras help with the enforcement of speed limits.↗ · The new rule needs proper enforcement, or nobody will follow it.↗ · Enforcement of the school phone ban is the teachers' job.↗ · The council is strict about the enforcement of parking rules.↗ · Without enforcement, a law is just words on paper.↗

engage — Everyday, meaning 1: To take part or get involved in something: «engage in a discussion».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To catch and keep someone's interest or attention: «The story engaged the class.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To employ someone to do a job: «engage a builder».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of machinery) To fit together and start working: «The gears engage.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) To start fighting with an enemy.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (formal) To promise or agree to do something.↗ Example: The teacher used puppets to engage the younger children.↗ · Pupils engaged in a lively debate about school uniform.↗ · (formal) We engaged a plumber to fix the pipe.↗ · When you press the pedal, the gears engage.↗ · Try to engage with the story by asking questions.↗ · The army engaged the enemy at dawn.↗ · The game is so engaging I forgot the time.↗ · But I must tell you I engage my labourers without wages.↗ · But if thou wilt go, and do engage never so valiantly in battle, God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.'↗ (Writings 2CH.25.8, JPS 1917)↗

engaged — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Having agreed to marry someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective, UK) Being used, busy (the toilet is engaged; the phone line is engaged).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Busy with or interested in an activity (engaged in learning).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Got someone's attention or interest.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) Employed someone; or began fighting with an enemy.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Locked a machine part into place (engaged the gears).↗ Example: My sister got engaged to her boyfriend.↗ · Sorry, the toilet is engaged.↗ · I rang Gran but the line was engaged.↗ · The pupils were engaged in a science project.↗ · The story engaged the children from the first page.↗ · The driver engaged first gear.↗ · The firm engaged a new cook.↗ · Shall we be engaged to each other?↗

engagement — Everyday, meaning 1: An engagement is an agreement to marry someone; a couple who are engaged usually wear or give an engagement ring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An arrangement to meet someone or be somewhere: «a dinner engagement».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Engagement is being interested and taking part: «pupils' engagement in lessons».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A battle or fight between armies.↗ Example: My cousin showed us her engagement ring.↗ · They announced their engagement at the family dinner.↗ · The engagement lasted a year before the wedding.↗ · I'm sorry, I have a prior engagement on Saturday.↗ · The teacher praised our class's engagement in the project.↗ · The naval engagement lasted all day.↗ · We went to my aunt's engagement party.↗ · “An engagement I have,” she replied.↗

engender — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To engender a feeling or situation is to cause it or make it begin: «Kindness engenders trust».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To engender a child is to father it; this sense is found only in very old books.↗ Example: Fair rules engender respect in the class.↗ · His rude jokes engendered a lot of anger.↗ · The coach's praise engendered confidence in the team.↗ · Rumours can engender fear in a small town.↗ · Good teamwork engenders friendship.↗ · The new law engendered a long debate in Parliament.↗ · Their blood, a bright ethereal fluid called Ichor, never engendered disease, and, when shed, had the power of producing new life.↗

engine — Everyday, meaning 1: An engine is a machine that burns fuel or uses power to make something move, like a car, train or plane.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The engine of a train is the front part that pulls the cars.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fire engine is a fire truck.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A search engine is a website that finds things on the internet.↗ Example: A plane has 4 engines.↗ · The train engine pulls 12 cars.↗ · Two fire engines came.↗ · How many engines do 3 planes have?↗ · The car engine would not start.↗ · Steam engines burn coal.↗ · Use a search engine to find facts.↗ · Pull over when you hear a fire engine.↗ · He had been running a long time before the engine; he had no idea that I was travelling there.↗ · And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.↗ (Prophets EZK.26.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones.↗ (Writings 2CH.26.15, JPS 1917)↗

engineer — Everyday, meaning 1: An engineer is a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads, buildings, computers or other things, using science and maths.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An engineer is a person who fixes or looks after engines and machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To engineer means to design and build something, or to arrange something cleverly, sometimes secretly.↗ Example: My mum is an engineer who builds bridges.↗ · Engineers designed this tall building.↗ · We acted like engineers and built a paper bridge.↗ · A software engineer writes computer programs.↗ · The ship's engineer fixed the engine.↗ · She wants to be an engineer when she grows up.↗ · The plan was cleverly engineered.↗ · For the gardener's boy meant, as soon as he was grown up, to be a general and a poet and a Prime Minister and an admiral and a civil engineer.↗

english — Everyday, meaning 1: English is a language, the one you are reading now.↗ It is spoken in many countries, like the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: English means coming from England.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: English is a school subject where you learn to read and write well.↗ Example: She has 3 English books.↗ · He scored 85 in English.↗ · The English class has 24 students.↗ · They study English for 45 minutes.↗ · English is spoken all over the world.↗ · We read a poem in English today.↗ · My friend is learning English.↗ · London is the capital of England.↗ · With English Translation, Preface, Explanatory Notes and Glossary, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Source: https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Sefer%20Yetzirah%20Gra%20Version?version=english%7CSefer+Yezirah%2C+trans.↗ +by+Isidor+Kalisch.↗ +New+York%2C+1877 Sefaria versionTitle: Sefer Yezirah, trans. by Isidor Kalisch.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Source: https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Sefer%20Yetzirah?version=english%7CSefaria+Community+Translation Sefaria versionTitle: Sefaria Community Translation↗ · license: CC0↗ · versionSource: https://www.sefaria.org (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

engrave — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To cut letters or designs into a hard surface like stone or metal.↗ Example: And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.28.36, JPS 1917)↗ · With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.↗ (Torah EXO.28.11, JPS 1917)↗ · In two and thirty most occult and wonderful paths of wisdom did JAH the Lord of Hosts engrave his name: God of the armies of Israel, ever-living God, merciful and gracious, sublime, dwelling on high, who inhabiteth eternity.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.↗ (Prophets ZEC.3.9, JPS 1917)↗