[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

effect \effect"\, 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.
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            that no compunctious visitings of nature
            shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
            the effect and it.                    --shak.
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   2. manifestation; expression; sign.
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            all the large effects
            that troop with majesty.              --shak.
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   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.
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            the effect is the unfailing index of the amount of
            the cause.                            --whewell.
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   4. impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
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            patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.
                                                  --j. c.
                                                  shairp.
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            the effect was heightened by the wild and lonely
            nature of the place.                  --w. irving.
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   5. power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance;
      account; as, to speak with effect.
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   6. consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; --
      with to.
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            they spake to her to that effect.     --2 chron.
                                                  xxxiv. 22.
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   7. the purport; the sum and substance. "the effect of his
      intent." --chaucer.

   8. reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere
      appearance.
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            no other in effect than what it seems. --denham.
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   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.
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   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.
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                resolving all events, with their effects
                and manifold results, into the will
                and arbitration wise of the supreme. --cowper.
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                shun the bitter consequence, for know,
                the day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt
                die.                              --milton.
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see also:
fact for effect in effect of no effect of none effect to no effect 
without effect to give effect to to take effect effect consequence 
result 

Effect >> E Words
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Eliza Effect >> E Words
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Doppler Effect >> D Words
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Field Effect Tr >> F Words
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