different between mood vs effect

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?od, IPA^(key): /mu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: mooed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English m?d (“heart, mind, spirit, mood, temper; courage; arrogance, pride; power, violence”), from Proto-Germanic *m?d?, *m?daz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh?-, *meh?- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with Scots mude, muid (“mood, courage, spirit, temper, disposition”), Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“mind, spirit, courage, will, intention”), Dutch moed (“courage, bravery, heart, valor”), German Low German Mood (“mind, heart, courage”), German Mut (“courage, braveness, heart, spirit”), Danish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Swedish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Icelandic móður (“wrath, grief, moodiness”), Latin m?s (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”), Russian ????? (smet?, “to dare, venture”).

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. A mental or emotional state, composure.

   Synonyms: composure, humor, spirit, temperament

2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
   • 1979, Judith Glassman, The Year in Music, 1979 (?ISBN):

     Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.

3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

   Synonyms: (informal) huff, pet, temper

   Antonyms: good humour, good mood, good spirits

   • 2010, Michelle West, City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that. They found Carver first. Rath was even less amused to see Carver in the drill room than he had been to find Duster. He grabbed Carver with his free hand, and dragged him out.

   • 2018, Catherine Lievens, Beacon in the Darkness, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 93:

     Joel was obviously in a mood, and if he was going to start yelling, Alex would rather be alone. “What did I do this time?” “It's more what you didn't do, idiot.”

4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

   Synonyms: huff, frame of mind

   • 2018, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Frost, Mind Your Muse Books (?ISBN):

     "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."

6. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
   • 1994, Kenneth Fearing, Complete Poems, page xxvi:

     This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]

   • 2010, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Methods Matter, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 8:

     By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.

7. (very colloquial, slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

   Synonym: big mood

   • 2019, Kris Ripper, Runaway Road Trip: (A Definitely-Not-Romantic Adventure):

     “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”

   • 2020, Birgit Breidenbach, Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity, Routledge (?ISBN)

     […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. […]

   • 2020, Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites (Oliver-Heber Books):

     He'd drawn a variety of designs on the white rubber toes. “Nice shoes,” I said. “Likewise,” he said, glancing down at my rockabilly-red peep toe pumps. “Those kicks are a whole-ass mood.” Whether Steven liked them on me or might like to […]

8. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.
   • 1440, O lord omnipotent?

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad, foul.
• The phrase with main and mood means "with all one's might".

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ambiance, ambience
• atmosphere
• Gemütlichkeit

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Alteration of mode, from Latin modus.

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

   Synonyms: grammatical mood, mode

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aspect
• tense

Anagrams

• Doom, Odom, doom

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?o?d??/

Noun

mood (genitive moe, partitive moodi)

1. fashion
2. tradition
3. appearance, style
4. (partitive) style, variety, sort, type

Declension

See also

• moondama

Manx

Pronoun

mood

1. second-person singular of mysh

   about you

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?d.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Etymology 2

From Old French mode.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“grammatical mood”)

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