In effect

Definition

effect /Ç'fekt/ n ၁။ [C, U] ~ (on sb/sth) အက်ဳိးတရား။ အက်ဳိးဆက္။ ရလဒ္။ သက္ေရာက္မႈ။ ထိေရာက္မႈ။ the effects of heat on metal ❍ dramatic/far-reaching effects ❍ the beneficial effects of exercise ❍ The experience had a profound effect on her. ❍ The recent increase in burglaries has had the effect of pushing up house insurance premiums. ❍ Despite her ordeal she seems to have suffered no ill effects. ❍ I tried to persuade him, but with little or no effect. See also GREENHOUSE EFFECT, SIDE-EFFECT ၂။ [C, U] ခံစားမႈရသ။ The overall effect of the sculpture is overwhelming. ❍ The stage lighting gives the effect of a moonlit scene. ❍ She only dresses like that for effect (ie in order to impress people). ❍ ‘Jurassic Park’ contains some amazing special effects. ၃။ effects [pl] ( fml ) အသံုးအေဆာင္ပစၥည္း။ The army sent her his personal effects. v ( fml ) ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ ျဖစ္ထြန္းလာသည္။ ၿပီးေျမာက္ေစသည္။ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈရိွသည္။ effect a cure/change. ❍ AFFECT 1 ❏ bring/put sth into effect [ IDM ] အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ သည္။ စတင္အသံုးျပဳသည္။ The new system will soon be put into effect. ❏ come/go into effect [ IDM ] (ဥပေဒ၊ စည္းမ်ဥ္း) အာဏာ တည္ေစသည္၊ သက္ေရာက္ေစသည္။ New seat-belt regulations came into effect last week. ❏ in effect [ IDM ] ၁။ လက္ေတြ႕အားျဖင့္။ စင္စစ္အားျဖင့္။ The two systems are, in effect, identical. See also EFFECTIVELY ၂ ၂။ (ဥပေဒ၊ စည္းမ်ဥ္း စသည္) အက်ဳိး သက္ေရာက္ေနဆဲ၊ အသံုးျပဳဆဲ။ Some ancient laws are still in effect. ❏ take effect [ IDM ] ၁။ အာနိသင္ျပသည္။ အစြမ္းျပသည္။ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္သည္။ The aspirins soon took effect. ၂။ စတင္အသံုးျပဳသည္၊ သက္ေရာက္သည္။ The new law takes effect from tomorrow. ❏ to the effect that… [ IDM ] … ဟုအဓိပၸာယ္ သက္ေရာက္ သည္။ … ဟုဆိုလိုသည္။ He left a note to the effect that he would not be returning. ❏ to good, etc effect [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးရိွရိွ၊ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ျဖစ္ေအာင္။ အထင္အျမင္ႀကီးစရာ၊ ဘဝင္က်သြားစရာျဖစ္ေအာင္ စသည္။ use money to good effect ❍ The room shows off her paintings to excellent effect. ❏ to no effect [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးမရိွ။ အရာမထင္။ We warned them, but to no effect. ❏ to this/that effect [ IDM ] ထိုသို႔ အဓိပၸာယ္ ေရာက္ေသာ။ She told me to get out, or words to that effect. ❏ with immediate effect/with effect from… [ IDM ] ( fml ) ယခုမွစ၍၊ … မွစ၍။ The government has announced a rise in interest rates with effect from 5 April.

Examples

1. [effect on/upon] : Scientists are studying the chemical’s effect on the environment.
2. [have an effect on something] : Any change in lifestyle will have an effect on your health.
3. [have some/little/no effect] : The NAFTA agreement has had little effect on the lives of most Americans.
4. [an adverse/beneficial effect] : East German companies were suffering the adverse effects of German economic union.
5. [reduce/counter the effect(s) of something] : Relaxation can reduce the negative effects of stress on the immune system.
6. The bold colours in this room create a dramatic effect.
7. That’s exactly the effect I wanted.
8. [get/produce/achieve an effect] : Students should learn how they can achieve different stylistic effects in their writing.
9. I didn’t think much of the plot
10. but the effects were amazing.
11. Marble-effect wallpaper
12. The Doppler effect
13. What economists call ‘the multiplier effect’