effect
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin effectuslbor.
Old French effectbor.
Middle English effect
English effect
Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Medieval Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Medieval Latin faciō
Medieval Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Medieval Latin -tus
Medieval Latin effectus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin effectuōder.
Middle English effecten
English effect
Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.
Inflected forms:
form: effects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The result or outcome of a cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
gloss: Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
gloss: Execution; performance; realization; operation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
gloss: Execution; performance; realization; operation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
gloss: An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The effect of flying was most convincing.
The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
gloss: An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
I just bought a couple of great effects.
gloss: A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Doppler effect
gloss: An influence or causal association between two variables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: effect size
therapeutic effect
gloss: Belongings, usually as personal effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: The tenant shall pay for the repair of, or replace all such items of the fixtures, fittings, furniture and effects as shall be broken, lost, damaged or destroyed during that time.
His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.
gloss: Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They spake to her to that effect.
gloss: Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: no other in effect than what it seems
gloss: Manifestation; expression; sign.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: All the large effects / That troop with majesty.
Related words: feckless
Derived words: Abney effect
accelerator effect
acousto-optic effect
adverse effect
aha effect
Aharonov-Bohm effect
Al Jazeera effect
Allais effect
Allee effect
Amazon effect
anchoring effect
Anrep effect
anti-greenhouse effect
Askaryan effect
audience effect
Auger effect
Auger-Meitner effect
Autler-Townes effect
autokinetic effect
avalanche effect
Averch-Johnson effect
Baader-Meinhof effect
backfire effect
Balassa-Samuelson effect
Baldwin effect
Bambi effect
bandwagon effect
bank effect
barber pole effect
Barkhausen effect
Barnett effect
Barnum effect
Baskerville effect
Bayliss effect
Ben Franklin effect
Bernoulli effect
betavoltaic effect
Bezold-Brücke effect
Bezold effect
Biefeld-Brown effect
big-fish-little-pond effect
Bilbao effect
bioeffect
birthday effect
black drop effect
Blackett effect
Bohr effect
boomerang effect
bouba/kiki effect
Bowditch effect
Bradley effect
Branly effect
Brazil nut effect
Bridgman effect
brown ocean effect
Bruce effect
Brussels effect
bullwhip effect
butt-brush effect
by-effect
bystander effect
cage effect
calendar effect
California effect
cannonball effect
capture effect
Casimir effect
catapult effect
catch-up effect
catfish effect
cause and effect
ceiling effect
Cerenkov effect
Cheerio effect
Cheerios effect
cheerleader effect
Cher effect
Cherenkov effect
chilling effect
chimney effect
Christiansen effect
Christmas tree effect
Christofilos effect
Cinderella effect
cis effect
Clayden effect
clientele effect
closing time effect
CNN effect
Coandă effect
coattail effect
cobra effect
cocktail party effect
coeffect
cohort effect
come into effect
common ion effect
common-ion effect
Compton effect
concentration effect
Coolidge effect
Coriolis effect
corset effect
Cotton effect
Cotton-Mouton effect
countereffect
Crabtree effect
cross-race effect
CSI effect
cumulative effect
Cupertino effect
curb cut effect
Dead Sea effect
Debye-Falkenhagen effect
decoy effect
Delia effect
Dellinger effect
Dember effect
denomination effect
desired effect
Diderot effect
disposition effect
distancing effect
Dole effect
Dorian Gray effect
dosis-effect
double effect
Downing effect
Dr. Fox effect
Droste effect
Eagle effect
Early effect
Eberhard effect
edge effect
Edison effect
effectful
effection
effectism
effectless
effectome
effect size
effectuation
Einstein–de Haas effect
Einstellung effect
electrocaloric effect
ELIZA effect
embedding effect
Emerson effect
endowment effect
entourage effect
Eötvös effect
Epps effect
Ettingshausen effect
eureka effect
Evershed effect
experience effect
Fåhræus effect
Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect
Fano effect
Faraday effect
fect
-fect
Ferguson effect
Ferranti effect
field effect
Fink effect
flash-lag effect
floor effect
Florence Nightingale effect
flow-on effect
flow on effect
Flutie effect
Flynn effect
Forbush effect
Forer effect
Forrester effect
founder effect
framing effect
Franssen effect
fraternal birth order effect
fraternal birth-order effect
free surface effect
Frey effect
Fröhlich effect
Fujiwhara effect
FX
F/X
ganzfeld effect
gauche effect
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
gem-disubstituent effect
generation effect
geodetic effect
Gerschenkron effect
Gibbs-Donnan effect
Gibbs-Marangoni effect
Gibbs-Thomson effect
Glasgow effect
Google effect
green-beard effect
ground effect
ground-effect machine
ground effect machine
ground-effect vehicle
Gruen effect
Gunn effect
gunslinger effect
gyromagnetic effect
Haas effect
Haldane effect
Hall effect
Hallwachs effect
halo effect
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
hard-easy effect
Hawthorne effect
healthy participant effect
Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect
Hohlraum effect
home market effect
horizon effect
Hoskins effect
hot chocolate effect
hothouse effect
Hound of the Baskervilles effect
household effect
ideomotor effect
IKEA effect
ill-effect
inductive effect
in effect
inert pair effect
in full effect
inner-platform effect
intereffect
international Fisher effect
isoeffect
isotope effect
jack-in-the-box effect
Jade Goody effect
Jahn-Teller effect
January effect
Jod-Basedow effect
Josephson effect
Joule-Kelvin effect
Joule-Thomson effect
Kapitza-Dirac effect
kappa effect
Kautsky effect
Kaye effect
Kelvin-Joule effect
Ken Burns effect
Kerr effect
Keynes effect
keystone effect
kiki/bouba effect
Kirkendall effect
knife-edge effect
Köhler effect
Kondo effect
Kuleshov effect
lake-effect
lake effect
Lake Wobegon effect
Land effect
Larsen effect
Las Vegas effect
late effect
lawn dart effect
Lazarus effect
Lee-Boot effect
legal effect
Leidenfrost effect
Lenard effect
Lense-Thirring effect
leveling effect
Levitin effect
Lindy effect
lipstick effect
Little-Parks effect
Lorrain Smith effect
lotus effect
magnetocaloric effect
magneto-optic effect
magneto-optic Kerr effect
Magnus effect
maleffect
Malter effect
Mandela effect
Mars effect
martini effect
mass effect
Massenerhebung effect
maternal effect
Matilda effect
McClintock effect
McCollough effect
McGurk effect
Meissner effect
Mellanby effect
memory effect
mere exposure effect
mesomeric effect
mid-domain effect
Miller effect
Mohring effect
Moneymaker effect
Mössbauer effect
Mould effect
Mozart effect
Mpemba effect
Mullins effect
Munroe effect
Munroe-Neumann effect
name-letter effect
narrow-width effect
neglected firm effect
neighbourhood effect
Nernst effect
network effect
Neumann effect
nocebo effect
noodle effect
Nordtvedt effect
Novaya Zemlya effect
nuclear Overhauser effect
Oberth effect
oblique effect
Odagiri effect
oddity effect
Okorokov effect
Olivera-Tanzi effect
Olympic village effect
Oprah effect
or words to that effect
Osborne effect
ouzo effect
overview effect
Ovsiankina effect
Pac-Man effect
Pais effect
pandemonium effect
Papageno effect
Paschen-Back effect
Pasteur effect
Paul Bert effect
Payne effect
Peltier effect
Peltzman effect
Penn effect
Perky effect
personal effects
Petkau effect
photo-Dember effect
photoelectric effect
photoelectromagnetic effect
photoferroelectric effect
photovoltaic effect
piezoelectric effect
piezoresistive effect
Pigou effect
pinch effect
placebo effect
plateau effect
Pockels effect
popcorn effect
positivity effect
Poynting-Robertson effect
practical effect
pratfall effect
precedence effect
primacy effect
protégé effect
Proteus effect
proximity effect
psychoeffect
Pulfrich effect
pull effect
Purkinje effect
Purkyne effect
Purkyně effect
put into effect
Pygmalion effect
pyroelectric effect
quantum Hall effect
quantum Zeno effect
rally 'round the flag effect
Raman effect
Ramsauer-Townsend effect
ransom note effect
Rashomon effect
ratchet effect
rebound effect
recency effect
resonance effect
reverse Magnus effect
Ringelmann effect
Robin Hood effect
rocking horse effect
Root effect
Rosenthal effect
Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Russian novel effect
Sadler effect
Sagnac effect
salt-effect distillation
Schottky effect
Schwinger effect
screen-door effect
second gas effect
second-round effect
second-system effect
Seebeck effect
serape effect
serial position effect
shadow blister effect
Shapiro effect
sheepskin effect
Shipman effect
Shubnikov-de Haas effect
side-effect
Signor-Lipps effect
silk screen effect
Simon effect
Sisyphus effect
skin effect
Slashdot effect
sleeper effect
slingshot effect
small firm effect
SnackWell effect
snob effect
Somogyi effect
spaghetti bowl effect
spillover effect
spin Hall effect
spot effect
spotlight effect
squat effect
stack effect
Stark effect
status effect
Stockholm effect
Streisand effect
Stroop effect
subeffect
Suess effect
Sylvia Plath effect
Szilard-Chalmers effect
take effect
Tanada effect
Tanzi effect
tau effect
teapot effect
testing effect
Tetris effect
Thatcher effect
thermoeffect
third-person effect
Thomson effect
Thorpe-Ingold effect
threshold effect
Ting Hai effect
Tocqueville effect
to that effect
to the effect
to this effect
trampoline effect
trans effect
transverse flow effect
trapdoor effect
trench effect
triboelectric effect
Troxler effect
Twomey effect
Tyndall effect
Unruh effect
Vandenbergh effect
Veblen effect
Venturi effect
venturi effect
Villari effect
vital effect
Voigt effect
von Restorff effect
Vroman effect
wagon-wheel effect
Wahlund effect
Wallace effect
Warburg effect
washback effect
watercooler effect
water-cooler effect
water cooler effect
weapons effect
wedding ring effect
weekend effect
Weinstein effect
Weissenberg effect
Wellesley effect
Werther effect
Westermarck effect
white coat effect
Whitten effect
wick effect
Wien effect
Wigner effect
Wilder effect
Wilson-Bappu effect
wing in ground effect
wing-in-surface-effect ship
with effect from
Withgott effect
Wolff-Chaikoff effect
women are wonderful effect
Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect
YORP effect
Zeeman effect
Zeigarnik effect
zombie effect
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