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effect

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

effect

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a devastating effect/impact

▪ The recession has had a devastating impact on employment in this area.

a direct effect/impact

▪ Our organization’s work has a direct impact upon children’s lives in this country.

a dramatic effect/impact

▪ An accident can have a dramatic effect on your family’s finances.

a likely effect/consequence

▪ Consider the options open to you, and their likely consequences.

a positive effect/impact

▪ Exercise has a positive effect on health.

adverse effect

▪ They fear it could have an adverse effect on global financial markets.

beneficial effect

▪ a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune system

cause and effect (=the idea that one thing directly causes another)

▪ What happened was simply a question of cause and effect.

combined effect/effects (=the result of two or more different things used or mixed together)

▪ The combined effects of the war and the drought resulted in famine.

combined effect/effects (=the result of two or more different things used or mixed together)

▪ The combined effects of the war and the drought resulted in famine.

cumulative effect (of sth)

▪ Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.

decisive factor/effect/influence etc

▪ Women can play a decisive role in the debate over cloning.

deleterious effects

▪ the deleterious effects of smoking

deterrent effect

▪ the deterrent effect of prison sentences

detrimental effect

▪ the detrimental effect of pollution on the environment

disastrous effects/consequences/results

▪ Climate change could have disastrous effects on Earth.

environmental effects

▪ The environmental effects of building the dam will be felt by generations to come.

exaggerate the effect (of sth)

▪ He yawned widely, exaggerating the effect by stretching his arms wide.

far-reaching implications/impact/effects

▪ Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.

formative influence/effect etc

▪ International politics were a formative influence on the party.

greenhouse effect

had the desired effect

▪ His remarks had the desired effect.

had the opposite effect

▪ I thought the medicine would make him sleep, but it had the opposite effect.

had...ripple effect

▪ The increase had a ripple effect through the whole financial market.

harmful/serious/adverse etc side effect

▪ a natural remedy with no harmful side effects

have...side effects

▪ These policy changes could have beneficial side effects for the whole economy.

health effects

▪ The study looked at the long-term health effects of drinking alcohol.

hypnotic effect

▪ His voice had a smooth hypnotic effect.

immediate effect

▪ The most immediate effect of retirement is a dramatic reduction in living standards.

indirect effects

▪ The indirect effects of climate change may be profound.

lessen the impact/effect/importance (of sth)

▪ The new project will lessen the effects of car pollution.

long-lasting effect/result

long-term effects

▪ the long-term effects of alcohol on the body

pause for effect (=in order to make people eager to hear what you are going to say)

▪ 'Now I know what to do,' Brown said, pausing for effect.

produce the desired effect

▪ As a policy, it did not produce the desired effect.

profound effect/influence/impact/consequence etc

▪ Tolstoy’s experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.

▪ The mother’s behaviour has a profound impact on the developing child.

reverse the effects of sth

▪ Hair conditioner can’t reverse the damaging effects of colouring and perming.

sb’s personal effects (formal) (=small possessions, clothing etc)

▪ After his suicide, his mother received his personal effects.

side effect

▪ a natural remedy with no harmful side effects

signs/symptoms/effects of stress

▪ Headaches, migraines, and irritability are all signs of stress.

▪ The effects of stress are subtle and sometimes difficult to see.

sound effects

special effect

spillover effect/benefit/cost

▪ The weak European economy will have a spillover effect on the US dollar.

stimulating effects

▪ the stimulating effects of coffee and tea

the effect/impact on the environment

▪ The building’s design will minimize its impact on the environment.

trickle-down effect

underestimate the importance/extent/effect/power etc of sth

▪ Never underestimate the power of the press.

undesirable effects/consequences etc

▪ The drug may have other undesirable effects.

with retrospective effect

▪ Teachers settled for a 4.2% pay rise with retrospective effect from 1 April.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

adverse

▪ If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims, we would discourage people from buying timber-frame.

▪ In one, no adverse effects on neonatal outcome were found.

▪ You wouldn't expect much speed out of it, but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect.

▪ Despite the adverse effect of lower output, energy efficiency has been maintained at the 1990 level.

▪ Such treatments are generally thought to have few adverse effects and are often self administered.

▪ Anti-abortion groups have seized upon the few that have shown an adverse effect, not the many that have not.

▪ Is this likely to have any adverse effect on the engine?

▪ Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.

beneficial

▪ Indeed, it may well have had the indirect, beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods.

▪ Excessive amounts of beta-carotene may somehow block the beneficial effects of one or more of the other nutrients.

▪ Organised self-help groups also rely on the beneficial effects of talking and discussion.

▪ One beneficial effect of the new policy was fewer lawsuits.

▪ Giving the puppies a companion, or playthings, failed to have such a beneficial effect.

▪ As mentioned in the discussion of pathophysiology, their beneficial effect is mainly due to the blocking of striatal acetylcholine receptors.

▪ However, an agreement did not qualify for exemption if its beneficial effects were only indispensable within a national market.

▪ We hope that further studies support these very beneficial effects of support during labor.

cumulative

▪ Though single pieces were restrained, the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically.

▪ The cumulative effect provides an even more impressive testimonial.

▪ During the reign of Charles the Bald, however, such developments not only continued but showed cumulative effects.

▪ But the cumulative effect is gridlock.

▪ The cumulative effect has been dramatic.

▪ Consideration could be given to the interaction and cumulative effects of various pollutants.

▪ The cumulative effect of all these changes do not auger well for the supply of teachers.

▪ Some missiles would be likely to leak through each layer but the cumulative effect would be to limit the damage greatly.

detrimental

▪ The application with the particularly detrimental effect on operators' jobs was the biscuit dough mixing automation.

▪ She had not learned that her dedicated efforts to achieve personal goals could have a detrimental effect on the work of others.

▪ This is obviously having a detrimental effect on textile exports from the region.

▪ Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.

▪ They must have some detrimental effect, either physical or economic, on employees, consumers or the general public.

▪ Subsequently, a serious accident at the company's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile.

▪ At the same time, medical and social science research began to indicate that retirement itself had detrimental effects.

▪ I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp.

direct

▪ The direct effect is the net change in the number of jobs before account is taken of output changes.

▪ Two direct effects are particularly important for this story.

▪ The departure of Mark, now a professor of engineering at the University of Texas, also had a more direct effect.

▪ In most situations this seems to be a direct effect of insulin on the hepatic production of IGFBP-1.

▪ These results suggest that caffeine indirectly affects many neurotransmitter systems through its direct effects on adenosine receptors.

▪ A finding of contributory negligence on the other hand has a direct financial effect on the plaintiff.

▪ Employee vacancies will not be filled except in cases where the position has a direct effect on public services.

dramatic

▪ He exploited his age, like all his other attributes, to great dramatic effect.

▪ This is sometimes done at discotheques, and it produces some dramatic effects.

▪ The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time.

▪ Hannah's film had a dramatic effect wherever it was shown, and won a clutch of awards.

▪ They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories, and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways.

▪ If the specific impulse could be increased towards 1000 seconds this would have a dramatic effect on the mass ratio required.

▪ The black and cream colour scheme in this bedroom from Smallbone creates a dramatic effect.

great

▪ He exploited his age, like all his other attributes, to great dramatic effect.

▪ But nobody demonized the opposition to greater effect than did Clinton strategist James Carville during the 1992 presidential campaign.

▪ This decline in population had great social effects.

▪ If we keep advocating our positions honestly, consistently, persuasively, we ultimately have a great effect.

▪ Firstly, how great are the effects of women's family responsibilities on their employment and pay.

▪ The longer the wind blows, the greater the effect.

▪ By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.

▪ Andersen and Towner have a perfect understanding, and the bass is employed both rhythmically and melodically to great effect.

harmful

▪ The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects.

▪ Studies consistently demonstrate that its harmful effects are far less than those of alcohol or tobacco.

▪ This also made it easier to note any harmful side effects of medication and ensure compliance with treatment.

▪ The self-interest behind such measures and the harmful effects in Third World countries are plain for all to see.

▪ Additionally, rapid repetition of the experiment allows the production of abdominal movies without any harmful effects to the subjects.

▪ Discussions about drugs' harmful effects were one thing, but McGrath was sick with heroin.

▪ There is no sound evidence of Ginseng inducing harmful side effects.

▪ In the absence of more tangible evidence, the argument regarding possible harmful effects on children can be ignored.

ill

▪ For the ill effects of bruises and other mechanical trauma, after Arnica.

▪ And this gridiron pendulum can truly stand the heat with no ill effects.

▪ If you do happen to swallow any bits they should pass straight through without any ill effects.

▪ Brownell did pioneering research on the ill effects of yo-yo dieting.

▪ But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn, says chairman Sir Roy Watts.

▪ Moceanu, showing no ill effects from the injury that threatened to keep her out of the Olympics, was efficient throughout.

▪ We are not totally recession proof but are certainly better insulated than most companies against its worst effects.

▪ It also neutralizes the ill effects of sitting at a desk all day and eating large lunches.

immediate

▪ The most immediate effect of all this has been the announcement of increased mortgage rates.

▪ It had the immediate effect, he said, of cutting the volume of usable corneas in half.

▪ Cannabis may have few immediate withdrawal effects and this again may give rise to the mistaken belief that it is not addictive.

▪ It advanced the use of shock to cure anything by scaring it out of your body, with immediate effect.

▪ Moving production to Lostock had an immediate effect.

▪ The most immediate effect of his proposal would be to block gaming by the Salt River tribe.

▪ His three-match ban has been lifted with immediate effect, freeing him for the First Division match at Huddersfield tomorrow.

indirect

▪ Direct and indirect effects Multiple causality means that two or more causes tend to work together to produce an effect.

▪ Its actions on various organs are the result of a combination of both direct and indirect effects.

▪ Indeed, it may well have had the indirect, beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods.

▪ Just as Bill Kestell noted earlier concerning tracks, the indirect effect of booby traps on infantry movement was serious.

▪ But the indirect effects may be more profound.

▪ It may carry out its views of public policy whatever indirect effect they may have upon the activities of the states.

▪ Though we found no direct effects on pay, holding other things equal, we found indirect effects of motherhood on pay.

▪ Later we will argue that some indirect effects occur due to cross-level interactions with chaotic population dynamics.

likely

▪ Look at the likely positive effects of it.

▪ In addition, such strategies presume that decision makers understand the likely effects of technology development on a local economy.

▪ In general Republicans supported the measure because its likely effect would be to undermine the long-lasting Democratic domination of the state legislature.

▪ The most likely effects being gastro intestinal with some nausea.

▪ These are particularly important when considering the likely effects within the real world.

▪ Survival International has launched a campaign against the programme and its likely effects on the indigenous inhabitants of the forest.

▪ Consent means that the patient must be capable of understanding the nature, purpose and likely effects of the proposed treatments.

▪ Remember to wear something approaching the colour of your wedding dress so that you can judge the likely effect on the big day.

major

▪ But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system.

▪ The major effect of the anticonvulsant drugs is to prevent that kind of spread.

▪ Who you are and how you behave will have a major effect on the men and women who live there.

▪ The location of your business can have a major effect upon your success.

▪ At least 20 sessions, spread over several days, are required to remove the major effects of practice.

▪ It is growing very rapidly and having an increasingly major effect on medical concepts and techniques.

▪ There were no major side effects that interrupted treatment in either group.

▪ The major effect we found with melatonin was in sleep maintenance.

negative

▪ It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work.

▪ None is big enough or bold enough to offset the negative effects of the financial collapse.

▪ With Ian, his inner sensitivity has a negative effect mainly in his working environment.

▪ As a practical matter, hydrogen use has some negative effects.

▪ These negative effects of direct taxation can not any longer be ignored.

▪ In work settings, people are able to limit the negative cardiovascular effects of stress through a variety of techniques.

▪ Finally, further analysis demonstrates that the level of political democracy has a negative effect on the strike volume.

net

▪ The result is that this type of wave combs material down from the top of the beach giving a net erosive effect.

▪ While the net negative effect on employment is small, this apparently minor response masks some disturbing compositional changes.

▪ The net effect of the application of the liberal model for developing work with the unemployed is thus somewhat muted and minimal.

▪ In both these cases, the net effect upon equilibrium price will be zero; price will not change.

▪ Therefore the net effect of cattle on a meadow is that the grasses benefit.

▪ The net effect of comet impacts is to erode the Moon, not add mass.

▪ But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.

▪ Ultimately, the net effect of the Bettelheim uproar was-not much.

opposite

▪ Crash dieting and yo-yo dieting, on the other hand, will have the opposite effect.

▪ Where we followed his lead-particularly in low-income housing-we often had the opposite effect, crippling community-based organizations.

▪ Do administrations of the right pursue policies which have the opposite effects?

▪ The two hormones exert opposite effects.

▪ This was precisely the opposite effect to that of green.

▪ It seems Cheltenham's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect, for the time being at least.

▪ But his single-minded determination to push through the single currency against rising opposition is producing precisely the opposite effect.

positive

▪ These results show a significant positive effect of maturity on volatility, and this contradicts the Samuelson hypothesis of a negative effect.

▪ However, including blacks in real estate ads does produce positive effects for black readers.

▪ In other words, general levels of income inequality have a positive effect on the incidence of political violence.

▪ When you stop using the visualizations and the affirmations, eventually the positive effects disappear.

▪ In this way the audit regime has the positive effect of improving professional standards.

▪ Watching a 16-year-old going through something like that is more likely to have a positive effect.

▪ This has a definite positive effect on our state of mind.

▪ Competition and ruthless downsizing have had positive effects.

possible

▪ Uncertain as to the cause the Doctor is even more worried about the possible effects.

▪ Some analysts say the possible effect of the gender gap is being overblown.

▪ They list possible side effects as mild to moderate and transient.

▪ Spicer started reading up on the possible coarsening effects of media violence on young children.

▪ This allowed an evaluation to be made of the possible effect pre-entry study on performance.

▪ Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why, and also the possible effects they may have.

▪ Twelve of these children received previous antibiotic therapy for various reasons, with possible inadvertent effects on the diagnosis of H pylori.

▪ Thus a possible deleterious effect of hyperinsulinaemia may be the inhibition of prostacyclin production by arterial wall.

profound

▪ To achieve this a set of regulations has been introduced which is having a profound effect on the electrical and electronics sectors.

▪ His writings indeed had a profound effect on others whose names appeared on the list.

▪ The speculation had an even more profound effect on the public sector.

▪ Taken together, different combinations of presidential, electoral, and party systems can have profound effects on democratic performance.

▪ The changes have had a profound effect.

▪ Rapid production of such large amounts of material clearly has profound effects on the land round the volcano.

serious

▪ All these points can be acknowledged without serious effect upon the method.

▪ Phenytoin has the advantage of being cheaper and having a lower incidence of serious hematologic side effects than carbamazepine.

▪ These cuts will also have a serious effect on the availability of legal help in criminal cases.

▪ Orthostatic hypotension occasionally is a serious side effect.

▪ The conflict was regularly reported in the mass media and had a serious effect on public confidence in the party.

▪ But like the drugs that made it possible, the plan had serious side effects.

▪ Nearly 80 percent of Party membership was unemployed, with serious effects on Party finance and organization.

▪ Sarcoidosis also can produce serious ill effects in the heart, eyes and nervous system.

significant

▪ Cocaine addiction does not invariably give rise to physiological addiction and there may be no significant physical effects of withdrawal.

▪ There was no significant effect on other types of cancer.

▪ This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep.

▪ Other significant side effects were uncommon.

▪ Indomethacin given alone had no significant effect.

▪ For squamous cell carcinomas of the oesophagus, histological differentiation grade has no significant effect on survival.

▪ No one doubts that the move will have significant lasting effects on the world of Unix and its relations.

■ NOUN

greenhouse

▪ Ever tighter regulations are being introduced to protect the environment from emissions contributing to the greenhouse effect or acid rain.

▪ This is the well-known greenhouse effect.

▪ These are the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the ozone layer, and acid rain.

▪ But scientists increasingly believe that it is one of the chief pollutants responsible for the greenhouse effect warming the planet.

▪ Background A tax on carbon-producing fuels such as coal, gas and oil has been proposed to help counter the greenhouse effect.

▪ The answer is that the greenhouse effect is very weak on Mars.

▪ Nitrous oxide Six percent of the current greenhouse effect.

▪ This enhancement of the greenhouse effect leads to increasing Earth-surface temperatures and global climate change.

■ VERB

achieve

▪ Basking in this praise, he went into considerable technical detail about how he had achieved the effect.

▪ We could achieve the same effect just by having everyone add a bunch of zeroes to their salaries and to prices.

▪ I found that by adding white I could achieve my desired effect.

▪ Sleeping on a contoured pillow will achieve the same effect if you prefer sleeping on foam rather than feathers.

▪ The playing with words to achieve effect in the description of the progress of the wave is fascinating.

▪ However, they illustrate what can be achieved through the powerful effects of organizing small.

▪ So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style.

▪ It's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women.

cause

▪ Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.

▪ There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects.

▪ And this can cause side effects which can be so severe that the drugs must be used very sparingly.

▪ However, the treatment itself can cause damaging side effects.

▪ At the discussions, time is given to cause and effect, but this is mainly at a conscious level.

▪ In some cases, the increased blood levels of a drug can cause an overdose effect.

▪ A small amount of Lentizol can kill and a wrong dose of Stelazine can cause serious side effects.

▪ The drugs can cause side effects, however, when administered systemically in doses high enough to be effective in the eye.

create

▪ The familiarity of features captured by the picture, creating the effect of instant recognition.

▪ Groups of animals create special effects.

▪ Spread on to the cake drum, blending the colours together with a palette knife to create a sea effect.

▪ It created an odd effect, because, as he shook his head, he still fanned himself with his straw hat.

▪ It is particularly popular with Interior Designers wanting to create original effects for their specialist clientele.

▪ In Quaker circles, it is possible that his witness did create some ripple effects.

▪ Guaranteed prices for agricultural products have created a knock-on effect resulting in high land prices and high food costs.

▪ Hand-painted clouds on the walls and ceiling help to create that effect along with a warm and genuinely friendly staff.

produce

▪ Direct and indirect effects Multiple causality means that two or more causes tend to work together to produce an effect.

▪ The drug produces more psychiatric effects and probably more cardiac toxicity than does levodopa.

▪ A cause has a power to produce its effect.

▪ Embracing Mary Shelley, enjoying her love and her perfumes, had produced the greatest solvent effect so far.

▪ Although these medications can produce side effects, they are uncommon.

▪ The police often collaborate in producing an expectancy effect.

▪ It produces effects that mimic those of many other drugs, such as opium, cocaine, Valium, and ether.

show

▪ Yet the cited studies have shown that the macroeconomic effects of such rigidities can be quite substantial.

▪ In particular, we have shown that the effect of context on word identification is different.

▪ I see him standing in that cold weather, never showing the effects of it.

▪ These results show a significant positive effect of maturity on volatility, and this contradicts the Samuelson hypothesis of a negative effect.

▪ Moceanu, showing no ill effects from the injury that threatened to keep her out of the Olympics, was efficient throughout.

▪ The results have varied, showing no effect in some and decreased secretion in others.

▪ The illustration shows the devastating effect on the marble produced by structural movement and the ingress of acid rain.

take

▪ The Basic Law took effect subject to the Occupation Statute, which came into force at the same time.

▪ By the time the order took effect, however, the issue had already become moot.

▪ This Treaty took effect, and the Occupation Statute was repealed, on 5 May 1955.

▪ The contracts are to be awarded in October, and will take effect from April 1999.

▪ Because of the constitutional dispute, Proposition 209 did not take effect until Thursday.

▪ About 75 percent of all the proposed spending cuts would take effect after 2000&038;.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

domino effect

▪ If schools were allowed to become more selective, there would be a domino effect.

▪ Opponents of the scheme claimed that if the museum moved from Golden Gate Park it would have a domino effect on the other facilities.

▪ As top-tier schools are forced to become less selective, there will be a domino effect.

▪ Each of the organizational parts was working on its specific concerns, and no one analyzed the domino effect.

▪ His farm lies next to Burnfoot and he fears approval for further planting there will start a domino effect throughout the valley.

▪ It started a domino effect which exists even today.

▪ It would create a domino effect across the board.

▪ The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right.

▪ What ensued was the by now familiar domino effect of emerging market crises.

feel the force/effects/benefits etc of sth

▪ Both say they now feel the effects of alcohol far sooner than when they smoked.

▪ He feels the effects of the night before, of a beat struck many times last night and last year.

▪ His body was slack, and as he grew colder and more tired, he felt the force of his will diminish.

▪ Kodak felt the effects of the anemic retail environment in December, the worst holiday shopping season since the 1991 recession.

▪ Southern California residents will feel the benefits of the new fuel, rather than see them.

▪ The next hour passed amiably, by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day.

▪ This force is universal, that is, every particle feels the force of gravity, according to its mass or energy.

▪ When they speak, I feel the force of history bearing down on me.

have a knock-on effect (on sth)

▪ Aid can have a knock-on effect in neighbouring countries which are also in great need.

▪ First, proposed increases in energy and payroll taxes could have a knock-on effect on wage demands and prices.

▪ It will cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, and may have a knock-on effect.

▪ Persecuting Nonconformists could have a knock-on effect in a community, hitting those who were loyal to the established Church.

▪ There are inevitable disruptions to deliveries such as vehicle breakdowns which have knock-on effects to delivery schedules.

▪ This will have a knock-on effect throughout the economy, and will drive up interest rates generally.

net result/effect

▪ The net result of global warming will be a rise in sea levels.

▪ The new system is designed to spread payments over several months but the net effect is that people pay more in total.

▪ But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.

▪ The net effect is to paralyze the organization in the present.

▪ The net effect of superimposing habituation on imprinting would be to displace the preference away from the familiar.

▪ The net result is clear: the wire will be pulled toward Mars and will stay taut under this combination of forces.

▪ The net result of this mechanism is increased sodium in the extracellular fluid.

▪ The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.

▪ We found that neither in theory nor in practice need the net effect be one of disincentive.

▪ Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.

placebo effect

▪ However, you then have another problem called the placebo effect.

▪ Medicine has generally regarded the placebo effect as a nuisance: it does make research on new medical drugs very difficult.

▪ With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, it is less obvious how the placebo effect works.

put sth into action/effect/practice

▪ Forest managers have been slow to put the plan into practice.

▪ But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.

▪ But there is a long way to go before he establishes a stable government that can put these qualities into action.

▪ Charles, however, was determined to use the farm at Highgrove as a model to put his ideas into practice.

▪ Guide us to recognise how great are your resources, and inspire us to put your plans into action.

▪ If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice.

▪ It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.

▪ The next stage is to implement it or put it into action.

▪ The next step is to put them into practice.

ripple effect

▪ And once you have so many farmers going broke, the ripple effect starts.

▪ Every woman who replaces traditional motherhood with self-nourishing motherhood creates ripple effects in our communities and our places of work.

▪ In Quaker circles, it is possible that his witness did create some ripple effects.

▪ Indeed, any new policy may be described as having a ripple effect.

▪ While the worst may be over, one airline consultant warned that ripple effects could last two more weeks.

snowball effect

▪ A snowball effect is the desired goal.

▪ All this has a snowball effect on the day's turnover and on the individual dealers' commissions.

▪ That affects the mock-up, or test, of the windows, and it has a snowball effect on other trades.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ All my efforts to persuade them were beginning to have an effect.

▪ Any increase in fuel costs could have a bad effect on business.

▪ Gail was still recovering from the effects of her operation.

▪ I've been taking these pills for three days, but so far they've had no effect.

▪ I tried using bleach to remove the stain, but without much effect.

▪ I was starting to feel the effects of two nights without much sleep.

▪ Storni's use of rhythm creates an effect of tension in her poems.

▪ The effects of the oil spill were devastating for wildlife.

▪ The death of a parent can have very serious and long-lasting effects on a child.

▪ the harmful effects of radiation

▪ The study measured the effect of fertilizers on the size of crops.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ At the same time, materials scientists launch an extensive search for other materials that might have similar effects.

▪ But they are concerned about the psychological effect the experience may have on the girls.

▪ However, the establishment of cause and effect in education is notoriously difficult.

▪ I saw her later in my office because the Hyper. 30 had no effect.

▪ In effect, a personalized automated trading system can be created without having to go to any financial institution.

▪ Patients with renal failure are, in effect, undergoing an osmotic diuresis since solute load per remaining functioning nephron is increased.

▪ Sleeping on a contoured pillow will achieve the same effect if you prefer sleeping on foam rather than feathers.

▪ The exploration of the effect of unconscious associations between words and ideas certainly takes eighteenth-century criticism into a new field.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cure

▪ In order to effect a lasting cure, it is necessary to correct the fundamental imbalance or disharmony.

▪ He said all her friends had advised it; they had cited many cases where it had effected a cure.

improvement

▪ Indeed it was possible that the obstacles to change in Britain were too deeply ingrained for any government to effect significant improvements.

▪ A quick partial water change will often effect an improvement in a matter of hours.