affect

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  1. transitive verb To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
  2. transitive verb To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
  3. transitive verb To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
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  • Women and Alcohol It is often quoted that females have a lower tolerance to alcohol than males and this is an indisputable fact but few people ever go on to tell exactly what the affect is and why. —  We Blog A Lot
  • The word affect is primarily used as a verb in English. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Compounding the calculations is the strong multiplier affect which is now exerted by hedge funds which tend to jump in to chase momentum magnify the movements in prices in either directions.
  • "Hang over" meaning something "hanging over" or a residual or after-affect is recorded by the —  The Big Apple
  • Evidence to this affect is provided in the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh were both captured in Pakistan —  Capitol Hill Coffee House
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  1. Middle English affecten, from Latin afficere, affect-, to do to, act on : ad-, ad- + facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, to strive after, frequentative of afficere, affect-, to affect, influence; see affect1.

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  1. from Middle English affecten, from Old French affecter, from Latin affectare, adfectare, strive after a thing, aim to do, aspire to, pursue, imitate with dissimulation, feign; also, in passive, be attacked by disease; freq. of afficere, adficere, act upon, influence: see affect, which is nearly allied to affect; the two verbs, with their derivatives, run into each other, and cannot be completely separated.
  2. from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere, adficere, act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease, literally do to, from ad, to, + facere, do, make. Cf. affect.
  3. from Middle English affect, from Latin affectus, adfectus, a state of mind or body produced by some (external) influence, especially sympathy or love, from afficere, act upon, influence: see affect, v. Affect, n., like affection, is formally a deriv. of affect, v., but in usage it rests also in part upon affect.
 

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