Search for crossword answers and clues
Fighter plane brought in faulty, not initially operational
Answer for the clue "Fighter plane brought in faulty, not initially operational ", 9 letters:
effective
Alternative clues for the word effective
Word definitions for effective in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Effective is the debut album by R&B group Side Effect . Released in 1973, this was the group's first and only album for Canadian-based GAS Records. It was reissued on CD in 2001 on Soul Brother Records.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a good/effective leader ▪ What characteristics make a good leader? a successful/effective strategy ▪ The most successful strategy is often the simplest one. an effective cure ▪ A few decades ago there was no effective ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "serving to effect the intended purpose," from Old French effectif , from Latin effectivus "productive, effective," from effect- , stem of efficere (see effect (n.)). Of military forces, meaning "fit for action or duty" is from 1680s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 2 a. 1 Having the power to produce a required effect or effects. 2 Producing a decided or decisive effect. 3 Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work. 4 Actually in effect. 5 (context geometry of a cycle or divisor English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effective \Ef*fect"ive\, a. [L. effectivus: cf. F. effectif.] Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. ...
Usage examples of effective.
To support these and concentrate from the earliest moment as effective a fire as possible upon the works, Farragut brought his ironclads inside of the wooden vessels, and abreast the four leaders of that column.
To accelerate at thirty-two gee, the capsule must be about twenty meters from the disk to keep effective gravity inside to one gee.
Incidentally, as a quaint but effective remedy for carious toothache, may be mentioned the common lady bird insect, Coccinella, which when captured secretes from its legs a yellow acrid fluid having a disagreeable odour.
How could that potentiality come to actuality unless there be, first, an effective principle to induce the actualization which, left to chance, might never occur?
The Institute has been researching high volume advertising since 1954 and is in the business of selling reports that offer statistical data on the most effective media and messages in various industries.
Just in the same way the mineral waters of Missisquoi, and Bethesda, in America, through containing siliceous qualities so sublimated as almost to defy the analyst, are effective to cure cancer, albuminuria, and other organic complaints.
It was a most effective disguise and would hide her from any Aldermanic wrath.
I would be every bit as effective in my ragged old coat, or stark naked for that matter, but he does insist-was Thero came in just then and Nysander gave Alec a wink that put him very much in mind of Micum Cavish.
You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.
The labor unions deserve to be favored, because they are the most effective machinery which has as yet been forged for the economic and social amelioration of the laboring class.
I had persisted with the morphine but the doses were becoming larger andless effective.
Thus the threat of blacklisting would be an effective sanction to enforce compliance with arbitrated contracts.
In the experience of earnest Christians, a personal belief in the resurrection of Christ, vividly conceived in the imagination and taken home to the heart, is chiefly effective in its spiritual, not in its argumentative, results.
This picture, clear and articulate, then becomes effective in the thoughts and actions of the leading history-makers of the Age.
Whereas an important segment of the natural right school developed the idea of articulating transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration, the historicist thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to conceive the subjectivity of the historical process and thereby find an effective ground for the title and exercise of sovereignty.