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EFFECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Settled securely and unconditionally
Example:
that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact
Synonyms:
accomplished; effected; established
Classified under:
Similar:
settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb effect
Context examples:
Depurination involves cleavage of the N-glycosidic link between a purine base and the remaining deoxyribose portion of the effected nucleotide in DNA, leading to loss of the purine base while leaving the DNA backbone intact.
(Depurination, NCI Thesaurus)
Then, after the break-up of the ice on the Porcupine, he had built a canoe and paddled down that stream to where it effected its junction with the Yukon just under the Arctic circle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I have already explained to our young friend here, said Challenger (he has a way of alluding to me as if I were a school child ten years old), that it is quite impossible that there should be an easy way up anywhere, for the simple reason that if there were the summit would not be isolated, and those conditions would not obtain which have effected so singular an interference with the general laws of survival.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Elinor was hardly less anxious than herself for their removal, and only so much less bent on its being effected immediately, as that she was conscious of the difficulties of so long a journey, which Marianne could not be brought to acknowledge.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I may have effected something, or his wildness may have spent itself; but by degrees he struggled less, and began to look at me—strangely at first, then with recognition in his eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To you, and to you only, belongs the credit of the remarkable arrest which you have effected.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is true, after six months' correspondence, he effected a compromise, whereby he received a safety razor for Turtle-catching, and that The Acropolis, having agreed to give him five dollars cash and five yearly subscriptions: for The Northeast Trades, fulfilled the second part of the agreement.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had effected some cures among them upon my way up the river, and had impressed them considerably with my personality, so that I was not surprised to find myself eagerly awaited upon my return.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hitherto, while gathering up the discourse of Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Temple, I had not, at the same time, neglected precautions to secure my personal safety; which I thought would be effected, if I could only elude observation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
