Word Finder - affect

definition

To influence or alter.

example

The experience affected me deeply.

synonyms

• alter
• change
• have an effect on
• have an impact on
• influence

definition

To move to emotion.

example

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

synonyms

• move
• touch

definition

Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

example

Hepatitis affects the liver.

synonyms

• attack
• harm
• infect

definition

To dispose or incline.

definition

To tend to by affinity or disposition.

definition

To assign; to appoint.

I didn't think about how it might affect you if I got hurt out there.

It wasn't possible that it could affect their life together.

Poverty can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, gender or social background.

The resin does not affect the unbroken skin.

She wasn’t going to let a little rain affect her good mood today.

The decision will not affect the validity of the remaining contract provisions.

Something had happened to affect her between their discussion the previous night and this morning.

It would be nice if I could make the decisions that affect my future, for once.

I hope the new round of layoffs will not affect me.

She was in shock after the attack, and it showed in the flat affect on her face.

As Martha said, I'm able to dial in settings that affect time and a location.

They might not have gone had he known how the country would affect her.

How would it affect the world for everyone's buying power to increase a hundredfold?

Although he was from New Jersey, he liked to affect a Southern accent sometimes. He thought it made him sound sexier.

She tried not to let it affect her but suspected by his look of satisfaction that he saw how quickly her face changed colors.

This preoccupation with him was becoming an obsession that was beginning to affect her ability to take care of the house.

Don’t let what I’ve told you affect how you act around your dad. We want this to be a surprise.

She tried to affect a calmness she didn’t feel as she went into the interview.

All the essential parts of the micrometer, including the slides, micrometer box, tube, etc., are of steel or cast-iron, so that changes of temperature do not affect the adjustments.

Do computers affect the eyesight of your average Joe?

As Kant put it, this was "the proclamation of a great reform, which, however, will be slow in manifestation and in progress, and which will affect not only your people but others as well."

The next class of wave or oscillation detector is the magnetic detector depending upon the power of electric oscillations to affect the magnetic state of iron.

The presence of carbonic acid in a water does not affect its action on lead.

I pulled out a pad and pencil, for affect.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.

The cold night didn't affect Jule this time; he used his magic to keep himself warm.

Despite her anger at her sister, Katie felt the warm smile affect her.

This is because the symptoms are similar to other illnesses that affect the large intestine.

Ringworm is a skin infection caused by fungus that can affect the scalp, skin, fingers, toenails, or feet.

Sleep longer for better results A new study that looked at children's sleep patterns suggests that not getting enough sleep could affect schoolwork.

Again rain dripping from exposed parts of the apparatus may materially affect the record.

The little Oracle knew just how to affect him.

Hornish said he didn't expect how aerodynamic changes would affect the car entering the high-speed chicane.

By designing drugs to affect specific neurotransmitters or neuroreceptors, drugs can be targeted at different parts of the nervous system.

Once regulators get has health hmo insurance medical PPO an offer appear to affect.

It is usual for the neuropathy to affect each side of the body symmetrically, unlike many other disease processes e.g. sciatica.

In addition it has been shown to affect students ' self-awareness, tutor-student interaction, medical student exam performance and drop-out rate.

He also took ecstasy tablets that also affect the heart.

A shortage of ice could also affect hooded and harp seals which rely on the ice to rear pups.

Increasing human activity in harbor could affect distribution and survival of offspring is vital during breeding season.

You don't need to know the slang, all you need to know is how the drugs affect them.

He maintained, in opposition to Aquinas, that the will was independent of the understanding, that only will could affect will.

It is well known that singly, doubly and trebly linked carbon atoms affect the physical properties of substances, such as the refractive index, specific volume, and the heat of combustion; and by determining these constants for many substances, fairly definite values can be assigned to these groupings.

He was distinguished as the discoverer of radioactivity, having found in 1896 that uranium at ordinary temperatures emits an invisible radiation which in many respects resembles Rntgen rays, and can affect a photographic plate after passing through thin plates of metal.

Not enough evidence has been collected to affect the question of racial change during the Aegean period.

The charges of superficial analogies, so freely urged against the " Natur-philosophie " by critics who forget the impulse it gave to physical research by the identification of forces then believed to be radically distinct, do not particularly affect,Hegel.

For example, three separate snow squalls affect your station during your 24- hour... your 24-hour snowfall total.

Reynolds, in his investigation, introducing no new form of law of distribution of velocities, uses a linear quantity, proportional to the mean free path of the gaseous molecules, which he takes to represent (somewhat roughly) the average distance from which molecules directly affect, by their convection, the state of the medium; the gas not being uniform on account of the gradient of temperature, the change going on at each point is calculated from the elements contributed by the parts at this particular distance in all directions.

Enkephalins have an analgesic effect and are thought to produce sedation, to affect mood and to stimulate motivation.

Falls not only cause physical injury but also affect older people's self-confidence and their ability to get out and about.