'Effect' definitions:
Definition of 'effect'
From: WordNet
noun
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot]
noun
An outward appearance; "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting" [syn: impression, effect]
noun
An impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived); "he just did it for effect"
noun
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
noun
(of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect" [syn: effect, force]
noun
A symptom caused by an illness or a drug; "the effects of sleep loss"; "the effect of the anesthetic"
verb
Produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave" [syn: effect, effectuate, set up]
verb
Act so as to bring into existence; "effect a change"
Definition of 'Effect'
From: GCIDE
- Effect \Ef*fect"\, n. [L. effectus, fr. efficere, effectum, to effect; ex + facere to make: cf. F. effet, formerly also spelled effect. See Fact.]
- 1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. [1913 Webster]
- That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Manifestation; expression; sign. [1913 Webster]
- All the large effects That troop with majesty. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. [1913 Webster]
- Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
- The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to. [1913 Webster]
- They spake to her to that effect. --2 Chron. xxxiv. 22. [1913 Webster]
- 7. The purport; the sum and substance. "The effect of his intent." --Chaucer.
- 8. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. [1913 Webster]
- No other in effect than what it seems. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- 9. pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. [1913 Webster]
- For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement.
- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above.
- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or {Without effect}, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." --Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." --Shak.
- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.
- To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims. --Shak.
- Syn: Effect, Consequence, Result.
- Usage: These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results. [1913 Webster]
- Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Effect'
From: GCIDE
- Effect \Ef*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effected; p. pr. & vb. n. Effecting.]
- 1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. [1913 Webster]
- So great a body such exploits to effect. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. [1913 Webster]
- To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. --Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
- They sailed away without effecting their purpose. --Jowett (Th. ).
- Syn: To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'effect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide by,
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- actualize,
- actually,
- adhere to,
- administer,
- affective meaning,
- aftereffect,
- aftermath,
- aim,
- ambition,
- amperage,
- angle,
- animus,
- apodosis,
- armipotence,
- artifact,
- ascendancy,
- aspect,
- aspiration,
- at bottom,
- attain,
- author,
- authority,
- basically,
- bear,
- bearing,
- beef,
- beget,
- black power,
- brainchild,
- breed,
- bring,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring off,
- bring on,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- brute force,
- call forth,
- capacity,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- catastrophe,
- cause,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- charge,
- charisma,
- charm,
- child,
- clout,
- coda,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- coinage,
- coloring,
- commit,
- compass,
- complete,
- composition,
- compulsion,
- conceive,
- conclusion,
- concoction,
- configuration,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- constitute,
- consummate,
- consummation,
- contrive,
- control,
- corollary,
- counsel,
- crack of doom,
- create,
- creation,
- creature,
- credit,
- crowning achievement,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- deal with,
- death,
- decease,
- denotation,
- denouement,
- descendant,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- design,
- desire,
- destination,
- destiny,
- determination,
- development,
- dint,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- distillation,
- do,
- do the job,
- do the trick,
- do to,
- dominance,
- domination,
- doom,
- draw down,
- draw on,
- drift,
- drive,
- duress,
- dynasty,
- effectively,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- effectuate,
- efficacy,
- eidolon,
- elicit,
- eminence,
- enact,
- enchantment,
- end,
- end point,
- end product,
- ending,
- energy,
- enforce,
- engender,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- essence,
- essentially,
- establish,
- esteem,
- event,
- eventuality,
- evoke,
- execute,
- expiration,
- extension,
- extract,
- facet,
- fashion,
- fate,
- father,
- favor,
- feature,
- fetch,
- figure,
- fill out,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- fixed purpose,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- form,
- found,
- fruit,
- fulfill,
- full blast,
- full force,
- function,
- generate,
- gestalt,
- gestate,
- get,
- gist,
- give birth to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- go and do,
- goal,
- good feeling,
- grammatical meaning,
- guise,
- handiwork,
- heir,
- hold,
- honor,
- idea,
- image,
- imago,
- impact,
- implement,
- implication,
- import,
- importance,
- impression,
- in effect,
- in truth,
- inaugurate,
- incept,
- incidental power,
- induce,
- inflict,
- influence,
- influentiality,
- insinuation,
- inspire,
- install,
- instigate,
- institute,
- intendment,
- intension,
- intent,
- intention,
- invention,
- invoke,
- issue,
- izzard,
- knock off,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- lead,
- leadership,
- leverage,
- lexical meaning,
- light,
- likeness,
- line,
- lineage,
- lineaments,
- literal meaning,
- look,
- magnetism,
- main force,
- main strength,
- make,
- make out,
- mana,
- manage,
- manner,
- manufacture,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- mastery,
- materialize,
- meaning,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- mind,
- mintage,
- moment,
- more or less,
- motivate,
- motive,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- new mintage,
- nisus,
- object,
- objective,
- observe,
- obtain,
- occasion,
- offspring,
- omega,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- organize,
- originate,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- overtone,
- pay,
- payoff,
- perform,
- period,
- peroration,
- perpetrate,
- personality,
- persuasion,
- pertinence,
- phase,
- phasis,
- pith,
- pizzazz,
- plan,
- point,
- polish off,
- poop,
- posterity,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- practical consequence,
- precipitate,
- predominance,
- preponderance,
- prepotency,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- procure,
- produce,
- product,
- production,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- project,
- promulgate,
- proposal,
- prosecute,
- prospectus,
- provoke,
- puissance,
- pull,
- pull off,
- punch,
- purchase,
- purport,
- purpose,
- pursuance,
- push,
- put away,
- put in force,
- put through,
- quietus,
- ramification,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- realize,
- really,
- reference,
- referent,
- regard,
- reign,
- relation,
- relevance,
- render,
- repercussion,
- repute,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- respect,
- resting place,
- result,
- rule,
- sake,
- say,
- scope,
- secure,
- seeming,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- semblance,
- sensation,
- sense,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- shape,
- side,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- simulacrum,
- sinew,
- sire,
- slant,
- so to speak,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- steam,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- strength,
- striving,
- strong arm,
- structural meaning,
- study,
- style,
- suasion,
- substance,
- subtle influence,
- succeed,
- successor,
- suggestion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- superinduce,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- supremacy,
- swan song,
- sway,
- symbolic meaning,
- take and do,
- take care of,
- take effect,
- tenor,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- things,
- total effect,
- totality of associations,
- transact,
- transferred meaning,
- truly,
- turn out,
- turn the trick,
- twist,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- up and do,
- upper hand,
- upshot,
- validity,
- value,
- vehemence,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- vigor,
- vim,
- virility,
- virtually,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight,
- whip hand,
- will,
- windup,
- wise,
- work,
- work out,
- wreak,
- yield,
- Z
Words containing 'Effect'
- Effected,
- Effecter,
- Effectible,
- Effecting,
- Effection,
- Effective,
- Effectively,
- Effectiveness,
- For effect,
- In effect,
- Of no effect,
- To no effect,
- effectivity,
- effects,
- to that effect,
- Mechanical effect,
- Of none effect,
- Peltier effect,
- Placebo effect,
- To give effect to,
- To take effect,
- Without effect,
- Zeeman effect,
- bandwagon effect,
- breadth of effect,
- butterfly effect,
- coattails effect,
- coriolis effect,
- domino effect,
- doppler effect,
- flywheel effect,
- greenhouse effect,
- ground effect,
- law of effect,
- personal effects,
- piezo effect,
- piezoelectric effect,
- position effect,
- side effect,
- skin effect,
- sound effect,
- special effect,
- stage effect,
- take effect,
- tyndall effect,
- cost-effective,
- knock-on effect,
- field-effect transistor,
- ground-effect machine