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Meaning of 'affect'
Meaning of 'affect' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Affect 
[ n.]
- Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [ n.]2. Affect [ v. t.]
- To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. [ v. t.]- To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
- To love; to regard with affection.
- To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
- To dispose or incline.
- To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
- To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
- To assign; to appoint.
Meaning of 'affect' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. affect [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- make believe with the intent to deceive
Example in sentence:
- He feigned that he was ill;
- He shammed a headache
Meaning (2):
- act physically on; have an effect upon
- act physically on; have an effect upon
Example in sentence:
- the medicine affects my heart rate
Meaning (3):
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
Example in sentence:
- he was dumb-struck by the news;
- her comments struck a sour note;
- This behavior struck me as odd;
- This child impressed me as unusually mature
Meaning (4):
- connect closely and often incriminatingly
- connect closely and often incriminatingly
Example in sentence:
- This new ruling affects your business
Meaning (5):
- have an effect upon
- have an effect upon
Example in sentence:
- Will the new rules affect me?
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