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1. (v.t.) affect
to produce an effect or change in:
Cold weather affected the crops.
2. affect
to impress the mind or move the feelings of:
The music affected him deeply.
3. affect
(of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
4. (n.) affect
feeling or emotion.
5. affect
Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response.
6. affect
Obs. inward disposition or feeling.
7. (v.t.) affect
to pretend or feign:
to affect knowledge of history.
8. affect
to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect:
to affect a British accent.
9. affect
to use, wear, or adopt by preference:
to affect an outrageous costume.
10. affect
to assume the character or attitude of:
to affect the freethinker.
11. affect
(of substances) to tend toward habitually or naturally:
to affect colloidal form.
12. affect
Archaic.
13. affect
to have affection for.
14. affect
to aspire to.
15. (v.i.) affect
Obs. to incline:
She affects to the old ways.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < MF affecter < L affectāre)
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| Definition of 'affect' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) affect
the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
2. (verb) affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
have an effect upon
"Will the new rules affect me?"
3. (verb) affect
act physically on; have an effect upon
"the medicine affects my heart rate"
4. (verb) involve, affect, regard
connect closely and often incriminatingly
"This new ruling affects your business"
5. (verb) feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
make believe with the intent to deceive
"He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
6. (verb) affect, impress, move, strike
have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
"This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
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1. (verb) affect
to change or influence
The disease affects the animal's brain.; car sales affected by high gas prices
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| Definition of 'affect' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) affect
affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition
2. (verb) affect
to act upon; to produce an effect or change upon
3. (verb) affect
to influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch
4. (verb) affect
to love; to regard with affection
5. (verb) affect
to show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually
6. (verb) affect
to dispose or incline
7. (verb) affect
to aim at; to aspire; to covet
8. (verb) affect
to tend to by affinity or disposition
9. (verb) affect
to make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance
10. (verb) affect
to assign; to appoint
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| Definition of 'affect' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. affect
The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.
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Sense: to act or have an effect on
Rain affects the grass; His kidneys have been affected by the disease.
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 Afrikaans: raak, affekteer |
 Arabic: يُؤَثِّر عَلَى |
 Bulgarian: действам |
 Brazilian: afetar |
 Czech: ovlivnit, působit (na) |
 German: sich auswirken auf |
 Danish: påvirke |
 Greek: επηρεάζω |
 Spanish: afectar |
 Estonian: mõjutama, kahjustama |
 Farsi: تحت تأثیر قرار دادن |
 Finnish: vaikuttaa |
 French: affecter |
 Hebrew: לְהַשְׁפִיע עַל |
 Hindi: प्रभाव डालना |
 Croatian: utjecati |
 Hungarian: hat vmire |
 Indonesian: mempengaruhi |
 Icelandic: hafaáhrif á, orka á |
 Italian: avere effetto su |
 Japanese: ～に影響を与える |
 Korean: ...에 영향을 미치다 |
 Lithuanian: (pa)veikti |
 Latvian: ietekmēt; iespaidot |
 Malay: menberi kesan |
 Dutch: van invloed zijn op |
 Norwegian: påvirke, angripe |
 Polish: oddziaływać na, mieć wpły |
 Persian: تحت تأثیر قرار دادن |
 Pashto: تر اغیزی لاندی نیول |
 Portuguese: afectar |
 Romanian: a afecta |
 Russian: воздействовать |
 Slovak: ovplyvniť, pôsobiť (na) |
 Slovenian: prizadeti |
 Serbian: uticati |
 Swedish: påverka |
 Thai: กระทบ; มีผลต่อ |
 Turkish: etkilemek |
 Taiwanese: 影響 |
 Ukrainian: впливати; уражати |
 Urdu: اثر ڈالنا |
 Vietnamese: ảnh hưởng |
 Chinese: 影响 |
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