Effect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EFFECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to bring about
• cause (something) to happen; bring about
• To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
• To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
• act so as to bring into existence
• cause to happen, accomplish
NOUN:
• a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
• the state of being or becoming operative.
• the extent to which something succeeds or is operative
• a physical phenomenon, typically named after its discoverer
• an impression produced in the mind of a person
• the lighting, sound, or scenery used in a play, film, or broadcast
• personal belongings
• change or result caused by someone or something
• Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
• Manifestation; expression; sign.
• In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
• Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
• Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
• Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
• The purport; the sum and substance.
• Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
• Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
• an outward appearance
• an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
• (of a law) having legal validity
• a symptom caused by an illness or a drug

Words related to EFFECT

effected17 effecter16 effecters17 effectible20 effecting18 effectless18 effects15

How to use EFFECT in a sentence

• It was always the right thing at the right time, and produced precisely the effect it aimed at.
• This timely precaution permitted each to work with a zeal that found no drawback in personal interest, and the effect was in proportion.
• But if there is any object which will serve as a mark in sight, it seems to have the effect of drawing his aim towards it.
• If the three Cantons thought as we three do, Something might, then, be done, with good effect.
• The effect of the incident was too explosive, however, for him to find expression.
• After what has gone before, we need hardly say that their well-meant efforts have a precisely opposite effect to the one they intend.
• I have not as yet done that, in order to avoid greater disturbances at a time when we are trying to effect a union of Portuguese and Castilian posts and arms in this South Sea.
• Whether this sudden exhibition of it was the effect of natural causes, or was produced by mortified love and pride, I leave the reader to conclude.
• Nevertheless, the whole construction of Society was so atrocious, that nothing could effect any improvement but interference from higher authority.
• They show the effect of good and regular food and of systematic exercise, their physical condition being vastly superior to that of the average Filipino.
• Lavretsky smiled bitterly, and sent a message by the bearer, to the effect that the letter needed no reply.
• At times appear palm trees, the feathery leaves of which mingle with beautiful effect with the pale or dark foliage of an exuberant vegetation.
• Buddhism holds everything to be momentary, so neither cause nor effect can abide.
• Thus after coming into being it would take the cause-collocation at least another moment to exercise its influence to produce the effect.
• At a later period he raised a company and marched towards Dan river with the hope of joining General Greene, but was unable to effect a junction in time.
• The beautifully regular movements of the sailors have a fine effect.
• But the same effect is produced, that of throwing into bold relief the sweet, noble, high and pure in our common humanity.
• Further, it was determined that the air and moisture, without aid of light, have also comparatively little effect on dyed colors.
• Education at a private school has an effect like baking loaves in a tin.
• It was, I thought, much the effect that might have been produced by a criminal in danger of arrest.
• I shall close what I have to say on the condition of the northern dependencies with the effect of the last of these attempts.

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