to affect

  • 51affect —  , effect  As a verb, affect means to influence ( Smoking may affect your health ) or to adopt a pose or manner ( He affected ignorance ). Effect as a verb means to accomplish ( The prisoners effected an escape ). As a noun, the word needed is… …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 52affect, effect —    As a verb, affect means to influence ( Smoking may affect your health ) or to adopt a pose or manner ( She affected ignorance ). Effect as a verb means to accomplish ( The prisoners effected an escape ). As a noun, the word needed is almost… …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 53affect display — noun External show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether involuntarily or not. We are not satisfied with this account (it is particularly weak in explaining the facial affect display of happiness) but… …

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  • 54Affect (homonymie) — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. L affect, un ensemble de mécanismes psychologique qui influencent le comportement. L affect, un concept psychanalytique, l un des représentants psychiques …

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  • 55affect — v. 1) to affect smb. deeply, profoundly, strongly 2) (formal and rare) (BE) (E) he affected not to hear * * * [ æfekt] profoundly strongly (formal and rare) (BE) (E) he affected not to hear to affect smb. deeply …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 56affect — af|fect W1S1 [əˈfekt] v [T] [Sense: 1 2; Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of afficere to influence , from ad to + facere to do ] [Sense: 3; Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: affecter, from Latin affectare, from afficere] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 57affect — af|fect [ ə fekt ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to change or influence something. If something affects something else, it has an effect on it: Did the newspapers really affect the outcome of the election? It is known that poor housing significantly… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 58Affect-Zeichen, das — Das Affect Zeichen, des s, plur. ut nom. sing. in der Orthographie, ein orthographisches Zeichen, welches die Gemüthsstellung des Sprechenden bezeichnet; dergleichen denn das Fragezeichen und das Ausrufungszeichen sind …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 59affect — 1. verb /əˈfɛkt/ a) To influence or alter. The experience affected me deeply. b) To move to emotion. The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction. Syn: fake, simulate 2 …

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  • 60affect perseverance — noun the effect of an individual preserving his/her affect even when he/she is presented with evidences that contradict it …

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