effect

Meanings

Noun

• The result or outcome of a cause.
• Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
• Execution; performance; realization; operation.
• An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
• An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
• A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
• Belongings, usually as personal effects.
• Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
• Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
• Manifestation; expression; sign.

Verb

• To make or bring about; to implement.
• Misspelling of affect

Related

Narrower meaning words

• aftereffect
• butterfly effect
• domino effect
• Doppler effect
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• greenhouse effect
• Hill-Robertson effect
• ill effect
• knock-on effect
• Lombard effect
• Marangoni effect
• Matthew effect
• Nader effect
• ripple effect
• runaway albedo effect
• side effect
• snowball effect
• special effect
• sound effect
• spoiler effect
• Woozle effect
• Yarkovsky effect

Origin

• For noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus ("an effect, tendency, purpose"), from efficiō; see effect as a verb. Replaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
• For verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō, from ex + faciō (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.