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effect

English

Etymology

For noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (an effect, tendency, purpose), from effici? (accomplish, complete, effect); 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 effici? (accomplish, complete, do, effect), from ex (out) + faci? (do, make) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f?kt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??f?kt/
  • (Malaysia, Singapore) IPA(key): /i?f?kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt
  • Hyphenation: ef?fect

Noun

effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)

  1. The result or outcome of a cause.
  2. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
    • October 1832, unknown author, The Tears of Parents (in The Christian Observer Volume 32
      patchwork [] introduced for oratorical effect
    • 1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra
      The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
  3. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
    1. (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
  4. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
  5. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
  6. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
  7. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
  8. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
    • They spake to her to that effect.
  9. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
    • 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
      no other in effect than what it seems
  10. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.

Usage notes

Do not confuse with affect.

Adjectives often applied to "effect":

  • biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social
  • actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weak

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • after-effect

Related terms

  • in effect
  • take effect
  • personal effects

Translations

References

Verb

effect (third-person singular simple present effects, present participle effecting, simple past and past participle effected)

  1. (transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
  2. Misspelling of affect.

Usage notes

Effect is often confused with affect. The latter suggests influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the former indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities:

  • “New governing coalitions have effected major changes” indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions.
  • “New governing coalitions have affected major changes” indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over those existing changes.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • effect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • effect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch effect, from Latin effectus. The sense ‘(equitable) security’ borrowed from German Effekt or French effet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??f?kt/
  • Hyphenation: ef?fect
  • Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

effect n (plural effecten, diminutive effectje n)

  1. effect
  2. (finance, usually in the plural) security
    Hypernym: waardepapier
  3. (ball games) spin (rotation of a ball)
  4. (obsolete) personal effect, belonging

Compounds

  • broeikaseffect
  • domino-effect
  • effectbal
  • effectenbeurs
  • sneeuwbaleffect

Derived terms

  • effectief

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: effek
  • ? Indonesian: efek

References


Middle French

Alternative forms

  • effaict

Etymology

From Old French effect

Noun

effect m (plural effects)

  1. effect

Descendants

  • French: effet

Old French

Etymology

From Latin effectus

Noun

effect m (oblique plural effecz or effectz, nominative singular effecz or effectz, nominative plural effect)

  1. effect
  2. (law) judgment; decree
    • punir les contrevenantz solonc l’effect des estatut
      Punish the offender according to the decree of the statute

Descendants

  • ? English: effect
  • French: effet

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brunt

English

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (oestrus, rut), or bruna (to rush).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

  1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
    • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar
      There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes []
  2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

  1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
    • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:
      "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"
      "What if they do? We must brunt it."
    We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

  • burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

  1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

  1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.

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