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affect English

Meaning affect meaning

What does affect mean?
Definitions in simple English

affect Verb

— If mathx/math affects mathy/math, then mathx/math causes a change in mathy/math. The movement of the soccer ball was affected by the wind. Sigmund Freud's ideas were affected by the writings of Frederick Nietzsche. How do you think the new government will affect the economy? — If you affect a way of speaking, walking, dressing, etc., you pretend that it is your normal way, often to impress people. "No, ma'm," Robert said, affecting a southern accent.

affect Noun

— Your affect is the emotion or feeling you have in response to an idea, object, etc. Actors need to bring out the affect of the scene. — Affect is emotion or emotional response. When teaching, we need to consider both ideas and affect.

affect

— verb have an effect upon Will the new rules affect me? — verb act physically on; have an effect upon the medicine affects my heart rate — verb connect closely and often incriminatingly This new ruling affects your business — verb (= feign, sham) make believe with the intent to deceive He feigned that he was ill He shammed a headache — noun the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion — verb (= impress, strike) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon This child impressed me as unusually mature This behavior struck me as odd

Synonyms affect synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as affect?

affect English » English

influence move impact feign pretend touch impress act concern sway involve put on airs pose have an effect on strike stir sham attitudinize work induce impinge have an effect dissemble touch on regard hit give exert influence emotion bias bear upon attack assume appeal to strike on attitude smite simulate show shape relationship relate to plague pain modify interest incite impinge upon have an impact on flirt with fake

Topics affect topics

What do people use affect to talk about?
Language and thought Want

Influence
Physical actions

Physical impact

Conjugation affect conjugation

How do you conjugate affect?

affect · verb

Examples affect examples

How do I use affect in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Gasoline prices affect all of us one way or another.
How's this going to affect me?
Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops?
Will the strike affect the price of coal?
We must not allow these problems to affect the project.
This article will affect my thinking.
The introduction of the new tax is expected to affect the entire economy.
Your drinking is starting to affect the performance of your duties.
An exclusively behavioral approach to psychology ignores family problems, school situations, and a host of other issues that can adversely affect a child's emotional and psychological growth.
There is an urgent need for understanding how climate change will affect our lives.
How can it affect them?
Beekeepers believe that GM crops adversely affect the health of their bees.
Is this in fact going to affect their relationships?
Your attendance will affect your final grade.
I am surprised by how aimlessness can affect people.
Other people's expectations affect how we behave.
I hope this won't affect our friendship.
Bending the cable too tightly can also adversely affect signal quality.
How does that affect you?

Movie subtitles

Um, I just want to say, I-I would never want anything to affect our friendship.
I just think we should be honest on how this is gonna affect us.
Their sentiments will in no way affect the judgement of this chair.
Your chain of newspapers must realise that this bill he is trying to block will affect your section.
How could the silver and gold that might dribble through to the rebels affect the outcome of this war one way or another?
We can clearly understand a shock to the nervous system but how does that affect the soul?
I see the knowledge does affect you.
I don't believe that these dead wretches can affect the prosperity of this village.
The pressure in the boat makes it affect everybody.
You can say that because it doesn't affect you! Nothing affects you!
You could affect a cure?
But did it affect your love for Ellen?
I know I'm stuck in a tough position but that shouldn't affect me as an artist.
Sir Joseph, does this affect the prosecution to the extent of asking for an adjournment?
Besides, it's beginning to affect your looks.
They can never affect ours, Monsieur Chanut.
It might affect your heart.
Yes, that must have saddened you. But did it affect your love for Ellen?
I do hope the great haste in which we're assembling this slapdash repast is not gonna affect me and render me incapable of appreciating good music.
It is a relief that the absence of the composer didn't affect your performance.
This affair's obviously the work of two men. The one who planned and the other who hid in the coffin and at prearranged time emerged to commit the murder and affect the robbery.
Something to affect the entire planet.
Now, a thing like that could affect your eyesight.
It's funny how a divorce will affect a guy even when he wants to get rid of his wife.
But the problem doesn't only affect children.
I'm not interested in your theories, not when they affect my job!
Remember also that you are not trying the accused for whatever views you may hold as to his relationship with Madame Grandfort except as it may affect this charge of murder.
It won't affect humans, but robots working on the surface may malfunction.
I feel it my duty to point out to you. that your escapades have begun to affect you physically. What nonsense, Jeeves.
Drinking will affect your health again.
Well, I will say this. unless the conflict inside her is stopped, It may even affect her reason.
Does it affect your confidence in me?
Nothing you could try with my men would affect me.
Well don't tell me that one day away from me can affect you this way!
Whom those facts affect, whether they mean guilt or innocence, is your job.
The heat will affect their instruments.
Drink doesn't affect me.
Me talking to Mars won't affect this dubious, Lin.
They know, too, that we have in this organization the most democratic constitution in the trade union movement, whereby no decision can be made to affect our people, unless that decision is made on the floor of meetings just such as these.

News and current affairs

The renewal process could affect the top and bottom layers, and inevitably it is necessary to recondition the institutional links between them.
There is, however, a danger that it will have an adverse affect on the necessary national discussion about race.
I believe that every member state should administer those policies that do not directly and significantly affect other member states.
They first look at the different ways that climate change will affect us at mid-century.
The law now affects only the Shia minority, but threatens to affect pending legislation that could restrict the rights of non-Shia women as well.
But the fact that foreign policy did not materially affect the November elections does not mean that the results will not affect US foreign policy.
These policies would affect US economic growth, the budget deficit, national saving, and hence global trade and capital flows.
And assessments of how the shutdown will affect the Republican Party's fortunes in the 2014 midterm elections are rife.
But how long and deep will this recession be, and how badly will it affect emerging and developing nations?
These are large and important issues that affect not only authors, publishers, and Google, but anyone with an interest in the diffusion and availability of knowledge and culture.
Its disappearance would affect all other arms control agreements.
Global climate change, too, will affect the quality of life, but the US cannot manage the problem alone.
But central banks make decisions that affect every aspect of society, including rates of economic growth and unemployment.
At bottom, they are protesting against the mismanagement of their countries' wealth and resources - with implications that affect the security and affordability of the entire world's energy supplies.
One consequence of the terrorist attacks 12 years ago is that Americans and others in the West became aware that developments in the Middle East could affect their own safety and security.
The limited fiscal resources that are available should be targeted on areas that affect competitiveness in the tradable sector.
In so doing, America must treat South Korea as a full partner with its own voice in making decisions that affect its security interests.
It cannot solve problems that directly affect it by acting on its own, though its leadership remains indispensable.
Given energy-security concerns, any Azerbaijani conflict would also seriously affect Europe. Iran, too would be affected, since it is a frontline state with interests in the region.
Indeed, as the US intelligence community's 2009 assessment predicted, China stands to affect global geopolitics more profoundly than any other country.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic trigger mechanisms that might affect a country's sovereignty.
Given energy-security concerns, any Azerbaijani conflict would also seriously affect Europe.

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