Affect
[ə'fekt] or [ə'fɛkt]
Definition
(noun.) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.
(verb.) act physically on; have an effect upon; 'the medicine affects my heart rate'.
(verb.) have an effect upon; 'Will the new rules affect me?'.
(verb.) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; 'This child impressed me as unusually mature'; 'This behavior struck me as odd'.
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
(v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
(v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
(v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
(v. t.) To dispose or incline.
(v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
(v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
(v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
(v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
(n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
Typist: Patricia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Influence, act upon, work upon.[2]. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.[3]. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.[4]. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at.[5]. Assume, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign,pretend
ANT:Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate
Checker: Nathan
Definition
v.t. to act upon: to produce a change upon: to move the feelings: to assign apply (only in pass.).—adj. Affect′ed touched with a feeling either for or against (with by): full of affectation: feigned.—adv. Affect′edly.—n. Affect′edness.—adj. Affect′ing having power to move the passions: pathetic.—adv. Affect′ingly.
v.t. to make a show or pretence of to assume to counterfeit or pretend to to take upon one's self to: (obs.) to aim at seek to obtain: (arch.) have a liking for to love: to practise wear or frequent: to haunt or inhabit by preference.—n. Affectā′tion a striving after or an attempt to assume what is not natural or real: pretence.
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Examples
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She did not affect modesty, nor appear in the least offended at my intrusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her illness or estrangement did not affect Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The English Channel is a holy terror, all right, but it didn't affect me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Yet who was it to affect? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At this moment, Legree sauntered up to the door of the shed, looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Indeed Captain Rawdon himself was much more affected at the leave-taking than the resolute little woman to whom he bade farewell. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You affected to help the police--I saw you! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These words, which conveyed to Elinor a direct avowal of his love for her sister, affected her very much. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In many factories where phosphorus is used without great care workmen have been greatly affected thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The relation of this affecting incident of private life brought master and man to Mr. Perker's chambers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That's a pity, now, Josh, said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With these affecting words, Mr. Weller looked steadfastly on his son, and turning slowly upon his heel, disappeared from his sight. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No, no, don't ask mine,' replied Mrs. Sowerberry, in an affecting manner: 'ask somebody else's. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And then, in her sweet simple way, George's mother made commentaries to the boy upon this affecting story. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She never would conceal anything seriously affecting her health from me: would she, eh, Margaret? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I suppressed my indignation; but I showed her that her intention was not lost upon me, and I repaid her annoyance by affecting humility. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I don't speak of your lover--I will give you the benefit of the doubt in that matter, for it only affects me personally. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A very trifle affects me now; so do not be too vain, nor attribute to sentiment what is due to the scarlet fever. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Any pleasure, with which we are acquainted, affects us more than any other, which we own to be superior, but of whose nature we are wholly ignorant. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She affects not to know that his eyes are fastened on her as she droops her head again; but her whole figure reveals that she knows it uneasily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yet I scarcely know how to take leave of the subject, it affects me so deeply! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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