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- n property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business
she left some of her personal effects in the house
I watched over their effects until they returned - n a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- n an outward appearance
- n an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
- n the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- n (of a law) having legal validity
- n a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
the effects of sleep loss - v produce
- v act so as to bring into existence
- Practically everybody, whether doctor or layman, pothead or puritan, has been expressing dogmatic opinions for years about the effects of marijuana on its users.
- We still have to test our suppositions in controlled conditions and measure the effects of coffee and tea on various systems of the body.
- One day, early in World War II, Briton Haldane impetuously clapped on an oxygen mask and, breathing pure oxygen (to study its effects), "dived" in a pressure chamber to a depth of .