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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ef•fect /ɪˈfɛkt/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] something produced;
a result or consequence. - [uncountable] power to produce results;
force: The protest had no effect. - [uncountable] the state of being effective or operative;
operation or execution: to bring a plan into effect. - a mental or emotional impression produced:[countable]He's trying to create a mottled effect with those odd colors.
v. [~ + object] - to produce as an effect;
bring about;
accomplish: to effect a change.
Idioms- Idioms in effect:
- essentially;
basically:in effect, a whole new way of rewarding workers. - operating or functioning;
in force:The new law is in effect.
- Idioms take effect, to go into operation;
begin to function;
start to produce a result:I could feel the whisky begin to take effect.
See -fec-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ef•fect (i fekt′),USA pronunciation n. - something that is produced by an agency or cause;
result;
consequence:Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin. - power to produce results;
efficacy;
force;
validity;
influence:His protest had no effect. - the state of being effective or operative;
operation or execution;
accomplishment or fulfillment:to bring a plan into effect. - a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
- meaning or sense;
purpose or intention:She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect. - the making of a desired impression:We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
- an illusory phenomenon:a three-dimensional effect.
- a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer):the Doppler effect.
- Show BusinessSee special effects.
- Idioms in effect:
- for practical purposes;
virtually:His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor. - essentially;
basically. - operating or functioning;
in force:The plan is now in effect.
- Idioms take effect:
- to go into operation;
begin to function. - to produce a result:The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.
v.t. - to produce as an effect;
bring about;
accomplish;
make happen:The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
- Latin effectus the carrying out (of a task, etc.), hence, that which is achieved, outcome, equivalent. to effec- (variant stem of efficere to make, carry out; ef- ef- + -ficere, combining form of facere to do1) + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged outcome, issue. Effect, consequence(s), result refer to something produced by an action or a cause. An effect is that which is produced, usually more or less immediately and directly:The effect of morphine is to produce sleep.A consequence, something that follows naturally or logically, as in a train of events or sequence of time, is less intimately connected with its cause than is an effect:Punishment is the consequence of disobedience.A result may be near or remote, and often is the sum of effects or consequences as making an end or final outcome:The English language is the result of the fusion of many different elements.
- 12.See corresponding entry in Unabridged achieve, realize, fulfill, perform, consummate.
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