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What (who) is Effect - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Effects; Effect (disambiguation)
Effect
·noun Manifestation; expression; sign.
II. Effect ·noun The purport; the sum and substance.
III. Effect ·noun Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
IV. Effect ·vt To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
V. Effect ·noun Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent;
- with to.
VI. Effect ·noun Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
VII. Effect ·noun Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
VIII. Effect ·noun Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
IX. Effect ·noun Goods; movables; personal estate;
- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
XI. Effect ·noun In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
effect
I. n.
1.
Consequence, result, issue, event.
2.
Force, validity, weight, power, efficiency.
3.
Purport, import, drift, tenor, meaning, general intent.
4.
Fact, reality, truth.
5.
General or total impression, ensemble.
II. v. a.
1.
Cause, produce, create.
2.
Accomplish, achieve, execute, perform, do, consummate, complete, realize, carry, compass, effectuate, bring about, bring to pass, carry out, work out.
effect
(effects, effecting, effected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing.
Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior...
Even minor head injuries can cause long-lasting psychological effects.
N-VAR: oft N of/on n, N of -ing, adj N
2.
An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing.
The whole effect is cool, light and airy.
= impression
N-COUNT
3.
A person's effects are the things that they have with them at a particular time, for example when they are arrested or admitted to hospital, or the things that they owned when they died. (FORMAL)
His daughters were collecting his effects.
= belongings
N-PLURAL: with poss
4.
The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery.
N-PLURAL
5.
If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen. (FORMAL)
Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards.
VERB: V n
6.
see also greenhouse effect
, placebo effect
, ripple effect
, side-effect
, sound effect
, special effect
, placebo effect
, ripple effect
, side-effect
, sound effect
, special effect
7.
If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
The Cockney accent was put on for effect.
PHRASE: PHR after v
8.
You add in effect to a statement or opinion that is not precisely accurate, but which you feel is a reasonable description or summary of a particular situation.
That deal would create, in effect, the world's biggest airline.
= effectively
PHRASE: PHR with cl [vagueness]
9.
If you put, bring, or carry a plan or idea into effect, you cause it to happen in practice.
These and other such measures ought to have been put into effect in 1985.
= implement
PHRASE: V inflects
10.
If a law or policy takes effect or comes into effect at a particular time, it officially begins to apply or be valid from that time. If it remains in effect, it still applies or is still valid.
...the ban on new logging permits which will take effect from July...
The decision was taken yesterday and will remain in effect until further government instructions.
PHRASE: V inflects
11.
You can say that something takes effect when it starts to produce the results that are intended.
The second injection should only have been given once the first drug had taken effect...
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
You use effect in expressions such as to good effect and to no effect in order to indicate how successful or impressive an action is.
Mr Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect...
PHRASE: PHR after v
13.
You use to this effect, to that effect, or to the effect that to indicate that you have given or are giving a summary of something that was said or written, and not the actual words used.
A circular to this effect will be issued in the next few weeks...
PHRASE: n PHR
14.
If you say that something will happen with immediate effect or with effect from a particular time, you mean that it will begin to apply or be valid immediately or from the stated time. (BRIT mainly FORMAL)
The price of the Saturday edition is going up with effect from 3 November.
PHRASE: PHR after v
15.
Wikipedia
Effect
Effect may refer to:
- A result or change of something
- List of effects
- Cause and effect, an idiom describing causality
Examples of use of Effect
1. In the four–fifths of states where executions either increased murders or had no effect, the brutalization effect either counterbalances or outweighs the deterrent effect.
2. It had an effect on me, just like it had an effect on the country.
3. The O‘Neill effect seems to have an immediate effect on prospective employers.
4. Islam does not have any bad effect, but a very good effect on the activities of people in this village.
5. But it is not their effect on the global economy that is crucial; it is their effect on speculative behaviour.