Sekirov Dictionary

affect

/əˈfɛkt/

verb 12
/ˈæ.fɛkt/ noun 3
forms 6

verb12

•
to make a difference to how someone or something is or what happens to them
- The experience affected me deeply.
- The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
•
To move to emotion.
- He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
•
Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
- Hepatitis affects the liver.
To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
•
(rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
- There is a Lady in Verona heere Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, And naught esteemes my aged eloquence. — 1590
•
To feign or pretend.
- The light above the door made it unconvincing to affect that no one was at home. — 1923
•
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
- He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
•
(no longer used) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
- Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations. — 1603
•
(no longer used) To dispose or incline.
- men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty — 1649
•
(no longer used) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. — 1704
•
(no longer used) To assign; to appoint.
- One of the domestics was affected to his special service. — 1847
•
(no longer used) To aim for, to try to obtain.
- For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life. — 1662

affect

/ˈæ.fɛkt/

noun3

•
A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
- A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect. — 2004
(no longer used) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
(no longer used) A desire, an appetite.

forms

affected · affectedst · affecting · affecteth · affects · affectest

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome