Definitions for effects

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effects ef·fects

Spelling: [ih-fekts]

IPA: /ɪˈfɛkts/

Effects is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in effects (ceeffst).

Definitions for effects

noun

1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence:
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence:
3. the state of being operative or functional; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment:
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention:
6. the making of a desired impression:
7. an illusory phenomenon:
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer):
9. special effects.

Idioms

1. in effect, for practical purposes; virtually: essentially; basically. operating or functioning; in force:
2. take effect, to go into operation; begin to function. to produce a result:

plural noun

1. goods; movables; personal property.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen:

Origin of effects

plural of effect

Examples for effects

That makes it incredibly difficult to determine the effects of airstrikes, for example.

I knew she was overloaded, and was afraid of the effects of a gale.

Now, this is not the ordinary man's experience of passion and its effects.

A modern example of the effects it is capable of is recorded by Tartini.

“The Syrian war is having its effects here as well,” said Yehyavi, the Iranian consul general in Quetta.

Miss Howe rallies her on the effects this intelligence must have upon her generosity.

Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.

In war, he wrote, “everything is uncertain … all military action is intertwined with psychological forces and effects.”

He is never downright intoxicated, and never free from the effects of liquor.

We see the effects of a state that spends more money per capita on prisons than it does on education.