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
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare
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
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda
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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