a condition caused by something
result
Cases of word usage
1) effect of being allowed to enter (admittance)
2) unpleasant result e.g. a delayed effect of a drug (aftereffect)
3) a medicine used to prevent a poison or disease from having an effect (antidote)
4) having a healthy, helpful, productive etc effect (beneficial)
5) to cause a (bad) effect on (a person) using magic (bewitch)
6) (usually pl) an apparatus for reducing the effect of a collision e.g. on a railway engine (buffer)
7) the effect in a tragedy or such qualities as fear and pity on the audience's emotions, especially feelings of relief and elation (catharsis)
8) something that follows or is caused as the result or effect (consequence)
9) (of actions, methods, medicines) having a very strong and serious effect (drastic)
10) (of words and language) used not in the true sense but in an imaginative way to produce a stringer effect (figurative)