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Effects   /ɪfˈɛkts/  /ɪfˈɛks/  /ˈifɛkts/  /ˈifɛks/   Listen
Effects

noun
1.
Property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business.  Synonym: personal effects.  "I watched over their effects until they returned"


Effect

noun
1.
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.  Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot.  "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"
2.
An outward appearance.  Synonym: impression.  "I wanted to create an impression of success" , "She retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting"
3.
An impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived).
4.
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.  Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist.
5.
(of a law) having legal validity.  Synonym: force.
6.
A symptom caused by an illness or a drug.  "The effect of the anesthetic"
verb
(past & past part. effected; pres. part. effecting)
1.
Produce.  Synonyms: effectuate, set up.
2.
Act so as to bring into existence.



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"Effects" Quotes from Famous Books



... was hungry, through the combined effects of salt air and an early dinner; she found bread and butter and coffee and ham most excellent, but looked askance at the dish of clams; which, however, she saw emptied with astonishing rapidity. Noticing at last ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... Deen's generosity. Not only those who knew him when he played in the streets like a vagabond did not recollect him, but those who saw him but a little while before hardly recognised him, so much were his features altered: such were the effects of the lamp, as to procure by degrees to those who possessed it perfections suitable to the rank to which the right use of it advanced them. Much more attention was paid to Alla ad Deen's person than to the pomp and ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... he slackened his gait, and, with a sober tread befitting a knight and officer of a garrison, he walked along the passage which led to the chamber allotted to the captain of the guard, from which that day Landless Jock had removed his effects. ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... my effects. Let me see what my assets will bring when reduced to cash, for this time it shall be a sale.' And he turned to a table where paper and pens were lying, and proceeded to write. 'Personal, sworn ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... N. merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade &c (store) 636; cargo &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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