affect

Significado

Verb

1. To influence or alter.
2. To move to emotion.
3. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
4. To dispose or incline.
5. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
6. To assign; to appoint.
7. To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.

Noun

1. A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
2. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
3. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.

Con guión como

af‧fect

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/əˈfɛkt/

Etimología

From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”).

Oraciones

If he makes a buying mistake , it doesn't affect him much .

Si comete un error de compra, no le afecta mucho.