The words effect and affect are often confused. The most common use of effect is as a noun referring to a change or result.

effect noun (THEATRE, ETC.) effects [ plural ] (also special effects) B1 lighting, sounds, and objects that are specially produced for the stage or a film and are intended to make something …

Something that is done for effect is done in a deliberate way to produce a particular feeling or reaction. The movie exaggerates his odd habits for comic/humorous effect. Computers are …

Effect appears less often as a verb, but when it does, it means “produce.” Usually, it’s a noun. It can even refer to your belongings, like when you get kicked out and your former roomie begs …

Definition of effect noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable, uncountable] a change that somebody/something causes in somebody/something else; a result. What are …

A person's effects are the things that they have with them at a particular time, for example when they are arrested or admitted to hospital, or the things that they owned when they died.

Effects definition: goods; movables; personal property.. See examples of EFFECTS used in a sentence.