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Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.\nThe effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape." }, { "mean": "Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.\n1832 October 1, unknown author, “The Tears of Parents”, in The Christian Observer, volume 32:patchwork introduced for oratorical effect\n1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra:The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place." }, { "mean": "Execution; performance; realization; operation.\nc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.", "submean": [ "(uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.\nThe new law will come into effect on the first day of next year." ] }, { "mean": "(cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in \"special effect\")\nThe effect of flying was most convincing.\n2018, Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (page 186)\nThe colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run." }, { "mean": "(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.\nI use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.\nI just bought a couple of great effects." }, { "mean": "(physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.\nDoppler effect" }, { "mean": "(usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.\n1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 7:His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon." }, { "mean": "Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 34:22:They spake to her to that effect." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.\n1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill\nno other in effect than what it seems" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.\nc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :All the large effects / That troop with majesty." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.\nThe best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.\n1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎:The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.\n1944 July and August, Charles E. 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