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Definitions: Affect |
AffectNoun1. The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion. Verb1. Have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?". 2. Act physically on; have an effect upon. 3. Connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business". 4. Make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache". 5. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "affect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Business | The conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Exposure tables. Tables listing all the factors wich affect the exposure. These are: the weather; the subject; the time (of the day and the year). . Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Affect To love, to desire. (Latin, affecto.) "Some affect the light, and some the shade." Blair: Grave. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Affect, Effect. These words are sometimes confounded. "The climate affected their health." "They sailed away without effecting their purpose." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Affective Computing derives its name from this word.
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Synonyms: AffectSynonyms: bear on (v), bear upon (v), dissemble (v), feign (v), impact (v), impress (v), involve (v), move (v), pretend (v), regard (v), sham (v), strike (v), touch (v), touch on (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo. |
Affections | Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love). |
Desire | Care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer; (choose). |
Excitation | Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame. |
Stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul. | |
Falsehood | Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour. |
Love | Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet. |
Relation | Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest. |
Tendency | Verb: tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote; (aid). |
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Screenplays | No matter how much America despises you I won't let it affect my feelings for you. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood, Jr.) You don't know what would happen if you kill this one. His death could affect the whole system, but I guess that doesn't matter to (The One; writing credit: Glen Morgan; James Wong) I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) That doesn't affect the irony honey-pie. (Texasville; writing credit: Peter Bogdanovich) | |
Lyrics | The same affect as the game ("Count It Off"; performing artist: Jade) | |
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Astronomers using the Hubble telescope to track weather on Mars and how it might affect the ...Credit: NASA. | ![]() | NRCS Partnership Efforts on the Susquehanna River Affect the Chesapeake Bay.Credit: Bob Nichols. | |
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![]() | How Indoor Air Pollutants Affect The Body.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | If you assume Aids won't affect you, then you should still assume the Earth is flat.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Alcohol and drugs affect your judgment.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Depression It can affect you in ways.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Alphonse De Lamartine | The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Little things affect little minds. |
Claiborne Johnson | The real values of life are solid and unshakable. A financial crisis can rob us of all that we have; but it cannot affect what we are. |
Jean Paul Richter | Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. |
Seneca | The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. |
W. Clement Stone | You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. |
William James | It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. |
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US Constitution | 1791 | The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2030 | This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peace with foreign powers, induced a provision that the supreme court should take original jurisdiction in cases which might be supposed to affect them; yet the clause would have proceeded no further than to provide for such cases, if no further restriction on the powers of congress had been intended. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The present stipulation will not affect the existing nationality of the inhabitants of the territory of the Saar Basin. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | How it would affect Frank was among the earliest thoughts of both. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Whatever might affect this condition, were it only on the surface, made him shudder as if it were the commencement of another. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But the dining out, being, as I have stated, a constant element, does not in the least affect a comparative statement like this. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Spasmodic dysphonia can affect anyone. (references) | |
Headaches affect millions of Americans. (references) | ||
It appears to affect men more than women. (references) | ||
Business | Political Structure Finally, political constraints can affect access. (references) | |
Corruption and conflicts of interest also affect judicial decisionmaking. (references) | ||
Quality, packaging and price are factors that affect purchasing decisions. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | Reportedly the designation is an honorary one and does not affect those programs' budgets. (references) |
Belgium | Children have the right to a voice in court cases that affect them, such as divorce proceedings. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Traditional social safety measures were inadequate to cope with the social pressures that affect families. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | The dominant religion, Catholicism, does not affect adversely the religious freedom of others. (references) |
Cambodia | The Constitution implicitly limits free speech by requiring that speech not adversely affect public security. (references) | |
Cameroon | Many professors believe that adherence to opposition political parties can affect adversely their professional opportunities and advancement. (references) | |
Discrimination | Yemen | Entrenched cultural attitudes often affect women's ability to enjoy equal rights. (references) |
Brazil | The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that important differences in wages affect women and blacks, particularly in rural areas. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | No regulatory issues affect the market. (references) |
Human Rights | Korea | They also affect the severity of punishment in the case of legal infractions. (references) |
Morocco | Aside from external pressures, resource constraints also affect the court system. (references) | |
Argentina | These rulings do not affect those cases for which military leaders were tried and later pardoned. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Indigenous groups assert that such encroachment often can damage the environment and negatively affect the health of the native people. (references) |
Australia | Through exercising their right to vote and through the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Commission (ATSIC), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are able to participate in government decisionmaking that affect them. (references) | |
Venezuela | The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references) | |
Minorities | Egypt | Ignorance of the law and societal pressure, including the centrality of marriage to a woman's identity, often affect her decision. (references) |
Ecuador | Afro-Ecuadorian organizations note that despite the absence of official discrimination, societal discrimination continues to affect them, including stereotyping. (references) | |
Latvia | In December 1999, the Parliament passed a revision of the Language Law, which went into effect on September 1, 2000. The Language Law regulates the uses of language that affect public safety, health care, protection of the consumer, and labor rights. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | Intellectual property problems do not specifically affect U.S. trade. (references) |
GREECE | Foreign debt does not affect Greece's ability to import U.S. goods and services. (references) | |
Syria | These concerns affect the business calculations of foreigners even more strongly. (references) | |
Political Rights | Russia | Changes to the Voting Rights Act affect legislation at both the federal and regional levels of the Russian Federation. (references) |
Burkina Faso | The irregularities cited by observers in the actual voting process were limited in number and scope and did not appear to affect the ultimate outcome of the election. (references) | |
Greece | Some minority members have charged that oversight by this office rather than by elected local governors reduced their ability to use the democratic process to influence decisions that affect them. (references) | |
Trade | France | Similar quotas affect radio broadcasting. (references) |
Guinea | The GOG states that there are no foreign exchange controls that affect trade. (references) | |
Israel | Printing dyes and other marking materials should not affect merchandise quality. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | They are normally localized, but they could affect tourists. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The announced decreases do not affect high voltage users of which there are only four. (references) | |
Ecuador | Travelers to Quito may require some time to adjust to the altitude (close to 10,000 feet), which can adversely affect blood pressure, digestion and energy level. (references) | |
Women | Ireland | Parental leave does not affect a mother's right to maternity leave. (references) |
Togo | Wife beating has been estimated to affect approximately 10 percent of married women. (references) | |
Vietnam | The Government also has a committee for the advancement of women, which coordinates interministerial programs that affect women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Marshall Islands | This exemption does not affect a significant segment of the workforce. (references) |
Iceland | However, the changes were not expected to be retroactive and would not affect the existing clubs, most of which were located downtown. (references) | |
Russia | The law specifies that a minimum level of essential services must be provided if a strike could affect the safety or health of citizens. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. J.G. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The balance of power between them, into whichever scale it may turn in its various vibrations, can not affect us. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | That the money had not technically been paid into the Treasury does not affect the principle intended to be established by the Constitution. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Labor's interest is very direct and personal because working conditions, wages, and prices affect the very life and happiness of the worker and his family. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We also established the Office of Families within the Department of Health and Human Services to review government policies and programs that affect families. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Today, an economic crisis anywhere can affect economies everywhere. |
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| "Affect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.74% of the time. "Affect" is used about 4,687 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 72.74% | 3,409 | 2,833 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.15% | 1,085 | 6,947 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.09% | 192 | 22,147 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,687 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "affect": affect a dress ♦ affect an accent ♦ affect great elegance ♦ affect ignorance ♦ affect stupidity ♦ affect the health ♦ affect the soul ♦ affect the woods ♦ affect to sleep ♦ have an affect ♦ have an affect on. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
affect | 82 |
affect effect | 54 |
paxil side affect | 51 |
affect of smoking | 46 |
lipitor side affect | 45 |
affect of divorce on child | 42 |
affect of alcohol | 42 |
vioxx side affect | 38 |
sound affect | 38 |
affect effect vs | 38 |
zoloft side affect | 34 |
affect lexapro side | 30 |
drug side affect | 29 |
affect drug | 28 |
wellbutrin side affect | 23 |
creatine side affect | 23 |
affect medication side | 21 |
prozac side affect | 21 |
the green house affect | 20 |
medicine side affect | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "affect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aangry (agitate, move, stir), aandoen (activate, call, call at, cause, give, give rise to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | afekt, veproj (act on, behave, do, do with, proceed, take effect, work), shtirem (dissemble, dissimulate, feign, impersonate, pretend), prek (adjoin, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), preferoj (choose, elect, prefer), pëlqej (approve, enjoy, fancy, Favor, favour, like, love, please, relish, take to), ndikoj (bias, color, colour, influence, operate, prepossess, sway), kap (apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), godas fort (bang, smash, smite, thump), godas (astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), dëmtoj (batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزع إلى (inclined), قلد (ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), ولع ب (be fond of, fancy, hack, hound, love, take a fancy to, take to), حرك المشاعر (touch), تكلف (affectation, artificiality, attitudinize, constrain, mannerism, mummery, pose, preciosity), تظاهر (assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), عاطفة (affection, chord, emotion, feeling, passion, poignancy, pulse, sentiment), ألف (accustom, compile, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand, write), أثر في (impact, influence, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react, touch), شعور (aura, cheer, consciousness, feel, feeling, hunch, pulse, sensation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | засягам (advert, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of), действувам (act, grip, move, operate, proceed), имитирам (ape, imitate, mimic, send up, simulate), позирам като, повлиявам (be influenced, bias, have an influence upon, predetermine, prejudice), покъртвам (move deeply, touch deeply), правя се (pretend, profess), предпочитам (choose, elect, lean, like better, prefer, see), давам си вид, афект, склонен съм към (run to, tend to), обичам (be fond of, care, care for, enjoy, like, love, taste), влияя (act on, influence), вълнувам (agitate, excite, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, vex, work up), въздействувам (impinge, influence, operate, react, reverberate, work), клоня към (tend to, verge to), трогвам (move, penetrate, reach, touch), чувство (emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sense, sentiment), харесвам (cotton, dig, fancy, like, relish, take a fancy to), преструвам се (dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, sham, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 波及 (involve, spread to), 影" (Affecting, Clout, Effected, Effecting, INFLUENCE, Influenced, Influencing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zachvátit, postihnout (afflict, befall, hit), předstírat (dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, sham, simulate), pùsobit na (have an effect on, work upon), dotýkat se (concern, handle, touch, touch upon), dojímat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | affekt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aandoen (activate, agitate, call at, cause, give rise to, move, put on, switch, turn on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | afekcii, kortuŝi (move), influi (influence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متاثرکردن (Touch), نتیجه (Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Sequel, Success, Upshot), وانمودکردن (Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham, Simulate), تغییردادن (Alter, Change, Interchange, Modify, Permute, Turquoise, Vary), تظاهرکردن به , احساسات (Emotion, Heartbeat), اثرکردن بر, اثر (Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage, Vestige), دوست داشتن (Like, List, Love, Savor), برخورد (Address, Clash, Conflict, Confliction, Contact, Contiguity, Encounter, Greet, Incidence, Reception, Smash, Strike, Tilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaikuttaa (act, be conducive, be effective, conduce, contribute, exercise an effect, have effect, influence, take effect), tekeytyä joksikin (feign, pretend to be, sham), teeskennellä (assume an air of, be affected, dissemble, feign, make believe, pretend, simulate), kohdistua (apply to, be concerned with, be directed, be turned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | influer, affecter, affect, émouvoir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | beynfloedzje (act, influence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beeinflussen (act, govern, impinge, infect, influence, sway, tamper with, to bias, to influence), affekt (affection, emotion), bewegen (actuate, budge, concern, exercise, incline, induce, move, move about, move around, moved, persuade, prompt, shake, shift, stir, to budge, to induce, to move), betreffen (appertain, apply, bear upon, concern, involve, pertain, regard, to affect, to concern, to pertain), berühren (agitate, border on, concern, contact, handle, handling, meet, move, skim, to touch, touch, touch on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επηρεάζω (induce, influence, make a difference, sway, weight with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפ'וע (blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), ל"שפיע על (induce, sway), ל"עמי" פ ים (dissimulate, feign, make believe, pose, pretend, sham, simulate), "פעלות (affectivity, effect, impression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | testalkat (body build, build, disposition, habit, physique, set-up, shape), meghat (agitate, move, to move, to pierce, to touch, to unman), izgalom (ado, agitation, bang, combustion, dither, excitation, excitement, fermentation, flurry, fluster, flutter, fume, furor, furore, perturbation, shake-up, stew, stir, tension, thrill, throes, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity, turmoil), hat (six, taken, to affect, to impress, to operate, to strike home, to take, took), érint (concern, dab, feel, felt, to affect, to concern, to feel, to graze, to mouth, to shave, to skim, touch, touch on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | senang akan, pura-pura (affection, illusive, mock, ostensible, pretend, pretended, quasi), mempengaruhi (influence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | affettare (carve, put on, slice, slice up), interessare (be interested in, be of interest, captivate, care, concern, interest, intrigue, matter), colpire (bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack), commuovere (be moved, move, thrill, touch), emozione (emotion, excitement), fingere (act, assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, play, pretend, sham, simulate), incidere su, influire su (influence), vivere (be, be alive, live), prediligere (prefer), preferire (choose, have rather, like, prefer, rather), riguardare (apply, concern, examine, look at, pertain, refer, regard, touch), simulare (feign, malinger, mimic, pretend, sham, simulate), toccare (be turn, be up to, concern, fall, feel, finger, handle, happen, have, hurt, move, reach, taction, to touch, touch, touch each other, touch in), trovarsi (be, be found, be located, find, find oneself, lie, occur, stand), influenzare (actuate, bias, condition, influence, prepossess, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 拘わる (to affect, to concern oneself in, to have to do with, to influence, to stick to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きどる (to affect, to put on airs), くらしにひびく (to affect the cost of living), さしひびく (to affect, to influence), さしさわる (to adversely affect, to hinder), さわる (to affect, to be harmful to, to do one harm, to feel, to hinder, to interfere with, to touch), かっ"つける (to affect a stylish air), かかわる (to affect, to concern oneself in, to have to do with, to influence, to stick to), かかる (easel, to affect, to be suspended from, to be the work of, to be trapped, to concern, to hang, to involve, to suffer from, to take), から にさわる (to affect ones health, to be bad for health), あそびあるく (to visit one place after another without affect), えいきょう'およぼす (to affect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 영향을 미치십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | aruh ... mempengaruhi (act, influence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill (acceptance, apprehend, apprehension, arrest, assumption, assumption of office, bring off, capture, catch, contract, contract as disease, contraction, distrain, draw off, engage, expropriation, impound, preoccupation, reduce, seizure, take), gleashaghey (advance, flow, flow of people, move), bentyn rish (concern, relative, tamper, touch, vis-a-vis, wash, wash of sea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | påvirke (influence), berøre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | influensiá (act, influence), influenshá (act, influence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affectay wpływać. (various references) assumir (accept, admit, assume, put on, take on), afetar (concern, feign, have an affect on, infect, smite, touch), afecto, abalar (concuss, convulse, depolarise, jar, jolterhead, move, scamper, shake, shock, stir, toss, unfix, unsettle), usar (apply, do without, employ, employee, exercise book, exert, make use of, take, to use, use, wear), transporte (bearing, carriage, carry, carry over, carrying, colportage, conduction, conveyance, conveying, driving, extraction, flush, freight, haul, haulage, hawking, portage, porterage, rapture, trance, transfer, transference, transferring, transit, transport, transportation, transposition), simular (assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feigned, feldspar, make believe, palter, play actor, pretend, purport, put on, sham, simulate), empregar (cob, devote, employ, exert, give small change, hire, make use of, placatory, place, put, spend, throw, use), emoção (affection, emotion, hoodwink, kick, pulse, sentiment, thrill). (various references) ataca (approach, assault, attack, engage, fall, go at, go for, hit, mug, pelt, pirate, Raven, start, tackle, thrust), afişa (advertise, announce, bill, display, exhibit, paste up, put up), afecta (afflict, alter, appropriate, assume, concern, disorder, feign, grieve, pretend, sham, simulate, touch, trouble), afect (affection, emotion, feeling), simula (act, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, play off, pretend, sham, simulate), se preface cã, interesa (commend, concern, import, interest, involve), influenţa (bias, bring to bear, influence, lobby, predetermine, reach, sway, work), impresiona (impress, meet, shake, strike), folosi (anticipate, apply, avail, benefit, boot, dispose, employ, impress, make use of, occupy, practise, put forth, seize, stand smb. in good stead, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), emoţiona (agitate, alarm, excite, flutter, move, stir, thrill, touch). (various references) трогать (finger, handle, move, palm, paw, reach, tamper, touch), влиять (act, influence, influenced), затронуть, задевать (brush against, graze), аффект, любить (be fond of, care for, like, liked, likes, likes to, love), притворяться (act a part, assume, assume a mask, dissimulate, feign, make believe, play a part, playact, put on a mask, simulate, wear a mask), поражать (afflict, astound, confound, flabbergast, invade, shock, smite, smote, strike), действовать на. (various references) gluais (agitate, move, put in motion, stir), drùidh (influence, ooze through, penetrate, soak). (various references) afekt, uzbuditi (disturb, excite, stir, stir up, thrill, touch), uticati (disembogue, flow, have an effect, influence), pogoditi (hit, nail, plug, score), ganuti (impassion, move, strike home), dirnuti (touch), delovati (influence, work). (various references) afectar (assume, attack, freak out, hit, impact, influence, put on, take, touch, warp, work), conmover (agitate, move, Pierce, shake, stir, thrill, touch). (various references) påverka (act, bias, impinge, influence, will). (various references) arzu (appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), yaşamak (dwell, exist, experience, inhabit, live, subsist, taste), tutmak (abide by, add up to, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), taslamak (assume, dissimulate, pose, posture, pretend to, put it on), sevmek (be fond of, be sweet on smb., care, caress, dandle, enjoy, fancy, fondle, like, love, pet), sarsmak (afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), numarası yapmak (act, feign, make a show of, play, pretend, simulate), hoşlanmak (be attracted, be partial to, be pleased with, be taken by, be taken with, care, click, delight, dig, enjoy, fancy, have a liking for smb., like, relish, take a fancy to, take a shine to smb., take to), heyecan (agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), etkilemek (cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), etki etmek (act, effect, have influence upon, operate, sway), dokunmak (be intolerant of, clap, contact, disagree, feel, handle, kiss, tip, touch), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), üzmek (afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references) degirmek (concern). (various references) уражати (afflict, astonish, astound, attack, nettle, petrify, strike), удавати (assume, counterfeit, let on, make believe, profess), хвилювати (agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), шкодити (blast, harm, wrong), вадити, впливати (bear in, influence, manipulate, operate, predetermine, react, sway), набирати форми, зворушувати (appeal, impassion), афект, любити щось, прагнути (aim, aspire, endeavor, endeavour, ensue, gasp for, gravitate, hanker, point, try for, wish for), прикидатися (counterfeit, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, sham, simulate), призначати (administer, administrate, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), потребувати (cost, crave, need, require, suppose, want), діяти (act, functionate, operate, proceed, run, tool, work). (various references) menu (impress, mark), ffugio (feign, forge), effeithio (effect), cymryd arno (assume, pretend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adfecerunt, adfectu, adficere, adficerent, adficiam, adficiant, adficiar, adficient, adficientes, affecti, affectu, affectum, contineo, inflecto, moram, moras, more, moris, morisque, moro, mose, mota, motae, moti, motio, motu, motum, motus, moveamini, movearis, moveat, moveatur, movebant, movebantur, movebatur, movebit, movebitur, movebo, movebor, movebunt, movebuntur, movemini, movemur, movenda, movens, movent, moventes, moventur, moveo moti motum, movere, moverem, moverentur, moveret, moveri, moveris, moverit, moverunt, moveruntque, moves, movete, movetur, movissent, movit, pertingat, pertingebat, pertingendi, pertingens, pertingentes, pertingeret. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Galatians Chapter 4, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Zhlousin umaV ou kalwV alla ekkleisai umaV qelousin ina autouV zhloute |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aemulantur vos non bene sed excludere vos volunt ut illos aemulemini |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei louen not you wel, but thei wolen exclude you, that ye suen hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | They are gelous over you amysse. Ye they intede to exclude you that ye shuld be feruet to them warde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them. |
| Basic English | 1964 |