Meaning of affect | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To influence or alter.
   transitive
2. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
   transitive
3. To aim for, to try to obtain.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from:get (to), impress, move, strike, touch.
5. To move to emotion.
   transitive
6. To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
   rare, transitive
7. To take on or give a false appearance of:assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, pretend, put on, sham, simulate.
8. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
   transitive
9. To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
   obsolete, transitive
10. afectar, causar un cambio en la salud; conmover, excitar.
11. To dispose or incline.
    archaic, transitive
12. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
13. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
    archaic, transitive
14. To act on the emotions of; touch or move. See Synonyms at move.
15. To assign; to appoint.
    archaic, transitive
16. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
17. To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
    transitive
18. Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect" (Norman Mailer).
19. Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
    Obsolete
20. To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent.
21. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.

Equivalents

Examples

“The experience affected me deeply.”

“The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.”

“The climate affected their health and spirits.”

“Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.”

“He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.”

“A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.”

“Hepatitis affects the liver.”

“men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty”

“The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.”

“One of the domestics was affected to his special service.”

“to affect ignorance”

“to affect a British accent”

“He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.”

“Thou dost affect my manners.”

“Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.”

“He affected prescription lenses, framed in spidery gold, ground from thin slabs of pink synthetic quartz and beveled like the mirrors in a Victorian dollhouse.”

“You affect to be a patriot. The words you uttered repeatedly when you killed her give lip service to that concept.[…]You are no patriot. By your actions you have betrayed the quintessence of our country, its adherence to parliamentary democracy.”

“Duke.[...] I loue the people, But doe not like to stage me to their eyes: Though it doe well, I doe not rellish well Their lowd applause, and Aues vehement: Nor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion That do's affect it.”

“For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life.”

“Wiſe are thy words, and glad I would obey, / But this proud man affects imperial ſway.”

“I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.”

“There is a Lady in Verona heere Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, And naught esteemes my aged eloquence.”

“From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment […]”

“A young gentlewoman in Basil was married[…]to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […]”

“As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected, then affected; rather honoured, then loved her.”

“But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect.”

“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.”

“Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed.”

“1825, William Hazlitt, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284, Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.”

“Think not, because he affecteth silks and jewels like a queen, and carrieth himself light and dainty as a silver birch tree on the mountain, that his hand is light or his courage doubtful in war.”

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