affect

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. v. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. v. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
4. n. 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).
5. n. Obsolete A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
6. v. To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent.
7. v. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes.
8. v. Archaic To fancy; love.
9. v. To tend to by nature; tend to assume: a substance that affects crystalline form.
10. v. To imitate; copy: "Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language” ( Ben Jonson).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To aim at; aspire to; endeavor after.
2. To use or adopt by preference; choose; prefer; tend toward habitually or naturally.
3. To be pleased with; take pleasure in; fancy; like; love.
4. To make a show of; put on a pretense of; assume the appearance of; pretend; feign: as, to affect ignorance.
5. To use as a model; imitate in any way.
6. To resemble; smack of.
7. To incline; be disposed.
8. To make a show; put on airs; manifest affectation.
9. To act upon; produce an effect or a change upon; influence; move or touch: as, cold affects the body; loss affects our interests.
10. To urge; incite.
11. To render liable to a charge of; show to be chargeable with.
12. To assign; allot; apply: now only in the passive.
13. Synonyms To work upon; to concern, relate to, interest, bear upon; to melt, soften, subdue, change. Affect and effect are sometimes confused. To affect is to influence, concern; to effect is to accomplish or bring about.
14. n. Affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.
15. n. State or condition of body; the way in which a thing is affected or disposed.
16. n. In psychology: The felt or affective component of a motive to action; the incentive, as opposed to the inducement, to act. See the extract.
17. n. Emotion.
18. n. In Spinoza's philosophy, a modification at once of the psychic and the physical condition, the former element being called an idea and the latter an affection.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To influence or alter.
2. v. transitive To move to emotion.
3. v. transitive Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
4. v. transitive To aim for, to try to obtain.
5. v. transitive To feel affection for; to like, be fond of.
6. v. transitive To make a false display of.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
2. v. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
3. v. obsolete To love; to regard with affection.
4. v. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
5. v. To dispose or incline.
6. v. obsolete To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
7. v. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
8. v. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume.
9. v. rare To assign; to appoint.
10. n. obsolete Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
11. n. (Psychotherapy) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. connect closely and often incriminatingly
2. v. have an effect upon
3. v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
4. n. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
5. v. make believe with the intent to deceive
6. v. act physically on; have an effect upon