What's the difference between effect and affect?

Answer 1

Effect (noun) :a change or result that something causes.
e.g. The effect of the disease is terrible .
Affect (verb) : to make something or someone different or change in some way .
e.g. I hope this new job will not affect your schoolwork .
Hope this helps .

Answer 2

There are five distinct words here. When “affect” is accented on the final syllable (a-FECT), it is usually a verb meaning “have an influence on”: “The million-dollar donation from the industrialist did not affect my vote against the Clean Air Act.”

Occasionally a pretentious person is said to affect an artificial air of sophistication. Speaking with a borrowed French accent or ostentatiously wearing a large diamond ear stud might be an affectation. In this sort of context, “affect” means “to make a display of or deliberately cultivate.”

Another unusual meaning is indicated when the word is accented on the first syllable (AFF-ect), meaning “emotion.” In this case the word is used mostly by psychiatrists and social scientists— people who normally know how to spell it.

The real problem arises when people confuse the first spelling with the second: “effect.” This too can be two different words. The more common one is a noun: “When I left the stove on, the effect was that the house filled with smoke.” When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.

The less common is a verb meaning “to create”: “I’m trying to effect a change in the way we purchase widgets.” No wonder people are confused. Note especially that the proper expression is not “take affect” but “take effect”—become effective. Hey, nobody ever said English was logical: just memorize it and get on with your life.

The stuff in your purse? Your personal effects.

Answer 3

ef·fect /ɪˈfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-fekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.



af·fect1 /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
–noun 4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
5. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
6. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.

Answer 4

Effect is the ability to produce an outcome.
Affect is what happens after the outcome.
Example for simplification
If you have a headache and you take pain medication it will affect the outcome of the headache and the outcome of the headache is "No More headache"

Answer 5

Effect means when something cause something, either purposely or accidentally go here to see what I mean http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Effect
Effect is what the action left in a that thing effected but physically . Affect is also after a cause but it is what is left emotionally , go here to see what i mean http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Affect so you see . I'm kidding there isn't any difference because they are synonyms look here 4 me to show you that they ARE synonyms http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/Affect or here http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/Effect Either one it is still the synonym of one another , there you go , hope I helped !

Answer 6

While effect can be used as a noun and a verb, generally speaking, if you need a verb you use affect and if your talking nouns - effect.

Answer 7

effect is what one takes and affect is what one gives.

Answer 8

affect and effect. um... lemme think a sec...

oh boy. this is hard. to affect is to influence.
to efect is to cause.

hope that helps. it was in my notebook. lol. just a random mead composition notebook.