Effect: alternatives and connections

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

Affect is usually a verb meaning influence; effect is usually a noun meaning result.

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

Usually a noun meaning a result.

To leap back; to rebound.

Use when the causal relationship is central; result is broader.

To complete, as time or distance.

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A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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To lead in; to introduce.

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Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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of Feel

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To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in th…

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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of Mean

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light,…

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Alt. of Significancy

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The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

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Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; t…

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The quality or state of being valid.

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A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

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To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

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A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

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A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

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a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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A stroke; a blow.

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

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That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

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The act of production; generation.

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That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

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The act of responding.

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The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the rever…

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The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

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To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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One who effects.

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One who effects.

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Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force,…

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Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force,…

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An effecter.

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An effecter.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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To clothe; to wrap.

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To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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To meet; to clash.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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That which is borne or carried; a load.

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That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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A body of individuals; an assemblage.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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A resting place.

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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To leap back; to rebound.

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Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

Often preferable to impact in precise academic prose when no forceful connotation is intended.

To leap back; to rebound.

A change produced by a cause.