different between effect vs profit

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin pr?fectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from profici? (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• (General American) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• Homophone: prophet
• Rhymes: -?f?t
• Hyphenation: prof?it

Noun

profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)

1. (accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
   • October 2, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

     Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
2. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 1 Corinthians vii. 35

     This I speak for your own profit.
3. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).

Usage notes

Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics.Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.

Synonyms

• gain

Antonyms

• loss

Derived terms

• for-profit
• non-profit

Translations

Verb

profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)

1. (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).

   • The word preached did not profit them.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

2. (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
3. (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• proficiency
• proficient

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• forpit

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?u?fit/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o?fit/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. benefit, advantage

Derived terms

• aprofitar
• bon profit
• profitós

Further reading

• “profit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “profit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “profit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “profit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.fi/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. profit, benefit

Derived terms

Further reading

• “profit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Profit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?profit]
• Hyphenation: pro?fit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

profit (plural profitok)

1. profit (total income or cash flow minus expenditures)

   Synonyms: haszon, nyereség

Declension

References

Further reading

• profit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norman

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. (Jersey) profit

Romanian

Etymology

From French profit.

Noun

profit n (plural profituri)

1. profit

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?fi?t/
• Hyphenation: pro?fit

Noun

pròf?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. profit

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English profit.

Noun

profit

1. profit
2. interest