What's the difference between "affect" and "effect" ?

Answer 1

Generally, affect is a verb (action) and effect is a noun (thing).

AFFECT
as a verb
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

as a noun
1. 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).
2. Obsolete. A disposition, feeling, or tendency.

EFFECT
noun

1. Something brought about by a cause: aftermath, consequence, corollary, end product, event, fruit, harvest, issue, outcome, precipitate, ramification, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, sequent, upshot. See cause/effect.
2. The power or capacity to produce a desired result: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficiency, influence, potency. See affect/ineffectiveness.
3. The condition of being in full force or operation: actualization, being, materialization, realization. See be.
4. One's portable property. belonging (often used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal stuff. Law chattel, movable (often used in plural). See owned/unowned.

verb

1. To be the cause of: bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure, set off, stir1 (up), touch off, trigger.
Idioms: bring topasseffect, give rise to.
2. To bring about and carry to a successful conclusion: bring off, carry out, carry through, effectuate, execute, put through. Informal swing.
3. To compel observance of: carry out, enforce, execute, implement, invoke. Idioms: put in force, put into action. See obligation, over/under.

Answer 2

effect is generally used as a noun (ex. Something had an effect)
affect is generally used as a verb (ex. Something will affect something else)

These are the most common uses; Effect can sometimes be used as a verb.

Answer 3

Affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

The power outage will affect thousands.
The power outage has had a great effect on thousands.

Answer 4

Both words can be used as noun or verb.
Affect (n.) - Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language
affect (v transitive) - to influence

Effect (n.) - a result
effect (v transitive) - to bring about, to make happen

Answer 5

Affects cause effects....

Answer 6

http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/affect.html

from the website above I found this direct quote and I hope it helps you some

"As a verb, effect means to execute, produce, or accomplish something; as a noun, affect is used primarily by psychologists to refer to feelings and desires as factors in thought or conduct."

Answer 7

to "affect" is to influence. To "effect" is to cause...... you can find the exact question and answer on the inside back cover of any composition book........

Answer 8

affect is like you "affected" me by asking this question. effect is like, the "effect" of you asking this question is me answering it. makes sense?

Answer 9

"Affect" is the verb:
The sad movie affected me. (Good way to remember...the "a" shows "a"ction.)
"Effect" is a noun:
The sad movie had a strong effect on me.

Answer 10

The first vowel.

(Figured I'd say something that hadn't already been said)