Effects
[ɪ'fɛkts]
Definition
(noun.) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; 'she left some of her personal effects in the house'; 'I watched over their effects until they returned'.
Edited by Lenore--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Goods, furniture, movables, personal estate.
Checked by Laurie
Examples
- What are the after effects? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Though their beneficial effects, however, have been in this respect accidental, they have not upon that account been less real. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In America the effects were immediate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I examined all his papers and all his effects. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For though there appear no manner of connexion betwixt motion or thought, the case is the same with all other causes and effects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The difference in the effects of two resembling objects must proceed from that particular, in which they differ. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The necessary connexion betwixt causes and effects is the foundation of our inference from one to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The question is not, at what period of life any variation may have been caused, but at what period the effects are displayed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Such are the unfortunate effects of all the regulations of the mercantile system. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If a person be my brother I am his likewise: but though the relations be reciprocal they have very different effects on the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I remember, after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire, I could not even behold a small one in a stove, without a sensation of fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs Merdle laughed, and conveyed to Mr Dorrit an idea that the Bosom flushed--which was one of her best effects. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Such effects seem to show a rising current of air. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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