effect

Forms

1.The result or outcome of a cause.
- 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.
2.Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
3.Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
- That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
4.An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- The effect of flying was most convincing.

1.To make or bring about; to implement.
- The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
- The election has affected our society, for it has effected major changes in the government.
- The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.
2.Misspelling of affect.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ef-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō