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effects
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"goods, property," 1704, plural of effect (n.); after a use of French effets.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I watched over their effects until they returned" [syn: personal effects]
Wikipedia
Effects (also released as The Manipulator) is an American horror film. It was filmed in 1978 but wasn't released until October 2005, when it received an official DVD release by Synapse Films. It features make-up effects by horror FX legend Tom Savini, who also appears in the film. It is about an insane filmmaker who is making a snuff documentary with an unwilling cast and crew.
Usage examples of "effects".
Of three salts of aluminium, one did not act, a second showed a trace of action, and the third acted slowly and doubtfully, so that their effects are nearly alike.
These effects differ altogether from those produced by the several salts of ammonia, as well as by various organic fluids, and by inorganic particles placed on the glands.
We have here to consider the effects of immersion in various fluids on the subsequent action of salts of ammonia and other stimulants.
In relation to these experiments it was necessary first to ascertain the effects of distilled water, and it was found, as described in detail, that the more sensitive leaves are affected by it, but only in a slight degree.
This great difference in the effects of a higher and lower temperature may be compared with that from immersion in strong and weak solutions of the salts of ammonia.
Sanderson has no doubt longer than on gelatine, and it would be hardly rash to predict, judging from the effects on Drosera, that albumen would be found more nutritious than fibrin.
Many scores of leaves were also immersed in water at other times, but no exact record of the effects produced was kept.
From these statements it might be thought difficult to distinguish between the effects of water and the weaker solutions.
When we see that much less than the millionth* of a grain of the phosphate, absorbed by a gland of one of the exterior tentacles, causes it to bend, it may be thought that the effects of the solution on the glands of the disc have been overlooked.
I shall have occasion, in the next chapter, to add a few remarks on the different effects of phosphate of ammonia on leaves previously immersed in various solutions.
From the powerful effects of so many acids on Drosera, we are led to infer that those naturally contained in the tissues of this plant, as well as of others, must play some important part in their economy.
But it would be an endless task to endeavour to ascertain the wonderfully diversified effects of various solutions on Drosera.
Thus these three leaves had perfectly recovered from the effects of the gas in the course of 24 hrs.
But a pharmacopoeia would be requisite to describe the diversified effects of various substances on Drosera.
Therefore it is a very interesting spectacle to watch the effects on the cells of a gland, of the pressure of a bit of hair, weighing only 1/78700 of a grain and largely supported by the dense secretion, for this excessively slight pressure soon causes a visible change in the protoplasm, which change is transmitted down the whole length of the tentacle, giving it at last a mottled appearance, distinguishable even by the naked eye.