affect
IPA: ʌfˈɛkt
noun
- (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
- (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
- (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
verb
- (transitive) To influence or alter.
- (transitive) To move to emotion.
- (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
- (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
- (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
- (transitive, Scotland, law) To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
- (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
- (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
- (transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
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Examples of "affect" in Sentences
- The ship is not affected by wavelet.
- Mockney is an affectation of Cockney.
- It affects the neutrality of the article.
- The mockingbirds are affected by the drainer.
- This affects the responsiveness of the action.
- Bob Woodward's affect is that of a human tape recorder.
- Affective science is the scientific study of emotion or affect.
- Mining influences the water runoff pattern of the area affected.
- She is important in the field of affective computing and related areas.
- Later symptoms are closely related to infraction of the affected tissue.
- In psychology the terms affection and affective are of great importance.
- How does/did Frankenstein affect art in general during the 19th Century?
- Usually all you can hope to affect is where the 'last seat' in each constituency goes.
- Each of those ways of using the revenue has different implications for specific households but the “average” affect is still the same.
- Do you think of yourself as a Korean-American writer, and does this acceptance or rejection of the label affect how you write and market your work?
- The net affect is no different, no, but there is significance in this in regards underlying motivation and how one goes about doing something about it.
- During our initial job hunting stages, the post-dot com recession was already in affect, and shortly after graduation, 9-11 really through a wrench into our plans.
- I prefer a more scientific materialist viewpoint myself, that affect is rooted in the kinaesthetics of physiology and is therefore as much a part of physical nature as any other sensory experience.
- But one thing it does not affect is certainly the mind and let me tell you, in the film that she had just seen, which was the premiere called Inkheart, it had flying monkeys that were lifted from The Wizard of Oz. Now Megan, 11 years old at the time, told me after the movie was over “Uh Brendan, you know the flying monkeys have been done before.”
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