Effect

Word EFFECT
Character 6
Hyphenation ef fect
Pronunciations /ɪˈfɛkt/

Definitions and meanings of "Effect"

What do we mean by effect?

Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result. noun

The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result. noun

Advantage; avail. noun

The condition of being in full force or execution; operativeness. noun

Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention. noun

A particular impression. noun

Production of a desired impression. noun

The basic or general meaning; import. noun

Movable belongings; goods. noun

To bring about; make happen; cause or accomplish. transitive verb

(in effect) In essence; to all purposes. idiom

(to the effect that) With the general meaning that. idiom

In art, an accidental or unusual combination of colors, lights, or forms which especially excite the interest of a painter and form a suitable motive or key in painting or etching. noun

That which is effected by an efficient cause; a consequent; more generally, the result of any kind of cause except a final cause: as, the effect of heat. noun

Power to produce consequnces or results; force; validity; account: as, the obligation is void and of no effect. noun

Purport; import or general intent: as, he immediately wrote to that effect; his speech was to the effect that, etc. noun

A state or course of accomplishment or fulfilment; effectuation; achievement; operation: as, to bring a plan into effect; the medicine soon took effect. noun

Actual fact; reality; not mere appearance: preceded by in. noun

Mental impression; general result upon the mind of what is apprehended by any of the faculties: as, the effect of a view, or of a picture. noun

The result or outcome of a cause.

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

Execution; performance; realization; operation.

An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

(etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

(usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.

Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.

Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

Manifestation; expression; sign.

Effect is one of the most widely misused words in the English vocabulary; mainly because of its counter-part, the word affect. effect is an ocurrence that follows, or that is caused by a previous ocurrence. Not to be confused with 'A'ffect. Urban Dictionary

Here and ready; often used in the beginning of RAP songs to indicate the artist is there and ready to jam also "in full effect" Urban Dictionary

The process of how an technical issue solves it self while being explained to an expert in the domain. Urban Dictionary

In manufacturing, which instances of a complicated product get a particular version of a part. Effectivity was coined at Boeing, in their old factory-control software, to identify a specific airplanes on the assembly line. Urban Dictionary

An idiotic modern word that has crept out of technical use in game theory to compete in pseudo-intellectual discourse with the real English word satisfying the same part of speech (effectiveness), which should be used instead in almost every case. Not to be confused with efficacy, which actually has a different meaning. Urban Dictionary

N.-Personal belongings Urban Dictionary

Tweaking it to make it look 20 times more visually attractive than it was before Urban Dictionary

David Dobrik's friend Dom made this word up in a vlog David posted while talking about condoms, he was trying to say the word effectiveness, but said the word effectency. Urban Dictionary

Useful Urban Dictionary

The aftermath of a night of playing sci-fi role playing game Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2 for the Xbox or PC. This is usually the result of playing more than 4 hours at a time or playing until the sun rises. Symptoms include falling asleep at work or just being disoriented throughout the day. Can alter sleep patterns and cause slurred speech. If this pattern of late night gaming persists it could lead to altered perceptions of reality where you want to make decisions like Commander Shepherd or make constant references to the game in conversations with people who have no idea what you are talking about. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Effect

The word "effect" in example sentences

So it is deemed better to classify in accordance with the function or effect it is known a means _must_ perform or accomplish than in accordance with the _object_ with respect to which an act or acts are directed or in accordance with some _effect_ which may or may not result. ❋ United States Patent Office (N/A)

An effect being _defined_ as something subsequent to its cause, obviously we can have no _effect_ upon the past. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

The Cause of any event, then, when exactly ascertainable, has five marks: it is (quantitatively) _equal_ to the effect, and (qualitatively) _the immediate, unconditional, invariable antecedent of the effect_. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

He must study the nature of the effect he is to produce, and of the materials upon which he is to work, and adopt, after mature deliberation, a plan to accomplish his purpose, founded upon the principles which ought always to regulate the action of mind upon mind, and adapted to produce the _intellectual effect_, which he wishes to accomplish. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

Given an effect to be accounted for, and there being several causes which might have produced it, but of the presence of which in the particular case nothing is known; the probability that the effect was produced by any one of these causes _is as the antecedent probability of the cause, multiplied by the probability that the cause, if it existed, would have produced the given effect_. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Both of these would have the effect of extremely diminishing the _effect_ of the measure in Ireland. ❋ Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham And Chandos (1829)

If it were proper to be rigorous in examining trifles, it might be replied, that Shakespeare would write more erroneously, if he wrote by the direction of this critick; they were not _distilled_, whatever the word may mean, _by the effect of fear_; for that _distillation_ was itself the _effect_; _fear_ was the cause, the active cause, that _distilled_ them by that force of operation which we strictly call _act_ involuntary, and _power_ in involuntary agents, but popularly call _act_ in both. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

In that way I discern the power of each thing, and that is the same power which produces the same effect, and that is a different power which produces a different effect_. "[ ❋ Unknown (1852)

"As to Mr Oswald's offer to make an acknowledgment of our independence the first article of our treaty, and your Excellency's remark, that it is sufficient, and that _we are not to expect the effect before the cause_, permit us to observe, that by the _cause_, we suppose, is intended the _treaty_, and by the _effect_, an acknowledgment of our independence. ❋ Jared Sparks (1827)

IMO the main effect is to make the UK NHS even more of a soviet-style technocratic provider than it already was. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So what this means in effect, is that no one is actually in charge at the moment … TO THE PUB! on May 7, 2010 at 6: 23 pm TaffyMedic ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

What we are doing in effect is transferring money from people who would spend it to people who don't need all that money and don't spend it; hundreds of people getting more than a million dollars a year, even when their company makes a loss. ❋ Stephen Lambert (2010)

What we may soon be witnessing, in effect, is an attempt on Harper's part, through his Ministers and their departments, to claim that role for himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What a model program like Globaloria and others like it shows us, in effect, is that kids don't need to wait for Superman. ❋ Idit Harel Caperton (2010)

I also know that, historically, we have been slaves to a nutrition-less health information system that, in effect, is designed to keep us in mental chains, thus to maintain the status quo. ❋ Ph.D. T. Colin Campbell (2010)

What you're arguing, in effect, is having the gov't borrow money on one hand and putting it into private accounts on the other is somehow less 'control'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The main effect is not that they add to measured unemployment, but that it tends to drive down wages because they are willing to work for less. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I.e., a real income tax goes to the Treasury for spending as general revenue, but the income tax on SS benefits is instead returned to the SSA, and so is indistingushable in effect from a means-tested benefit reduction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. The Effect of drinking too much beer is waking up and finding a [semi-nude] manatee-sized woman laying in bed next to you. 2. The [OPEC] has a [direct Effect] on oil prices. ❋ Skwirel (2007)

Start of No More by [Christian RAP] band [dc Talk] [DCT] in effect! ❋ EHA (2006)

I felt the the IT effect when tried showing [the bug] I found [to Jim] in IT but then I couldn't [reproduce] it. ❋ JimTheITGuy (2020)

The redesigned [part] goes on this effectivity [and all] following [ones]. ❋ Tsamnami (2019)

The effectivity of [the word] "effectivity" is [nonexistent]. ❋ Phlux (2003)

"[I need] to get my effects." ❋ Fkn2 (2006)

Ricky: dude this pictures so dull [Wolfgang]: bro you should do some [effecting] and [spruce] it up ❋ Chocolatelover143 (2011)

David: You want your own [condoms] [Dom]: [That's right] David: That doesn't work right? Dom: Hahaha, zero percent effectency ❋ Misterwhyman (2019)

[this is] effective ❋ Bruh17 (2021)

Example 1 Guy1: Hey man I tried to call you around [2pm] why didn't you answer? Guy2: Oh sorry I was suffering from Mass Effect effect and was still sleeping Example 2 Guy1:Hey where were you last night? Guy2:Oh sorry I was out with a friend you don't know Guy1: (grabbing his shirt and slamming guy2 against the wall) Why don't you stop jerking me around and give me some answers Guy2: Whoa relax "Commander [Shepherd]" I think you're suffering from the Mass Effect effectExample 3 Guy1:Man my girlfriend thinks about sex [more than most] guys do, I swear she's part Asari! Guy2:What the hell is an Asari? Guy1:Or sorry man, I'm suffering from Mass Effect effect ❋ Changus Kahn (2010)

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