Definition of Effect

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Effect

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

Manifestation; expression; sign.

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.

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.

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

The purport; the sum and substance.

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

Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.

To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

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Effect Quotations

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Effect Translations

effect in Afrikaans is effek, uitslag, impak, indruk
effect in Danish is resultat, udfald
effect in Dutch is indruk, effect
effect in Finnish is teho
effect in French is effet
effect in German is Ergebnis, Eindruck, Wirkung
effect in Italian is effetto
effect in Latin is efficio, praesentia presentia, impetro, effectus
effect in Norwegian is virkning, effekt
effect in Portuguese is efeito
effect in Spanish is efecto

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