English Dictionary

effect

/ɪˈfɛkt/

noun

The result or outcome of a cause. / Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. / Execution; performance; realization; operation.

The effect of the medication was immediate.

意味（1）

The result or outcome of a cause.

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

意味（2）

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect

意味（3）

Execution; performance; realization; operation.

意味（4）

(uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.

意味（5）

(cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

The effect of flying was most convincing.

意味（6）

(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.

意味（7）

(physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

Doppler effect

意味（8）

(usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.

His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.

意味（9）

Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.

They spake to her to that effect.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

no other in effect than what it seems

意味（11）

(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.

All the large effects / That troop with majesty.