Except vs Affect - What's the difference?
except | affect |
To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
* 2007 , Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:
To take exception, to object (to' or ' against ).
* Shakespeare
*, vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 23:
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 96:
With the exception of; but.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (lb) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) IX:
*:And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.
*1621 , (Robert Burton), (The Anatomy of Melancholy) , New York 2001, p.106:
*:Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.
To influence or alter.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Steven Sloman, volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To move to emotion.
* Edmund Burke
Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
(archaic) To dispose or incline.
* Milton
(archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
* Newton
(archaic) To assign; to appoint.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) To aim for, to try to obtain.
* Dryden
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
*, I.2.4.vii:
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), :
* Fuller
(obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.9:
*:Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.
* Shakespeare
* Hazlitt
To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
* Congreve
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
(obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 62:
* 2004 , Jeffrey Greenberg & Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology , p. 407:
In lang=en terms the difference between except and affect
is that except is to take exception, to object (to' or ' against ) while affect is to make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume to make a false display of.As verbs the difference between except and affect
is that except is to exclude; to specify as being an exception while affect is to influence or alter or affect can be (obsolete|transitive) to aim for, to try to obtain.As a preposition except
is with the exception of; but.As a conjunction except
is with the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.As a noun affect is
(obsolete) one's mood or inclination; mental state.except
English
Alternative forms
* excepte (rare or archaic)Verb
(en verb)- But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
- to except to a witness or his testimony
- Except thou wilt except against my love.
- Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].
- The Athenians'' might fairly except against the practise of ''Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey
- he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.
Preposition
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Synonyms
* apart from * bar * but * other than * saveDerived terms
* except for * except for opinionConjunction
(English Conjunctions)citation, passage=Mother
Quotations
* (English Citations of "except")Statistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsaffect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) affecter, (etyl) affecter, and its source, the participle stem of (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The experience affected me deeply.
- The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
- The climate affected their health and spirits.
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- He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
- A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
- Hepatitis affects the liver.
- men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty
- The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
- One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
Usage notes
Affect'' and effect are sometimes confused. ''Affect'' conveys influence over something that already exists, but ''effect indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities: * “...new policies have effected major changes in government.” * “...new policies have affected major changes in government.” The former indicates that major changes were made as a result of new policies, while the latter indicates that before new policies, major changes were in place, and that the new policies had some influence over these existing changes. The verbal noun uses of affect'' are distinguished from the verbal noun uses of ''effect'' more clearly than the regular verb forms. An ''affect'' is something that acts or acted upon something else. However, an ''effect is the result of an action (by something else).Synonyms
* (influence or alter) alter, change, have an effect on, have an impact on, influence * (move to emotion) move, touch * (infect) attackDerived terms
* affectinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) (see Etymology 1, above).Verb
(en verb)- This proud man affects imperial sway.
- From that day forth she gan to him affect , / And daily more her favour to augment […].
- A young gentlewoman in Basil was marriedto an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect ; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […].
- But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect .
- As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected , rather honoured than loved, her.
- For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.
- Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
- to affect ignorance
- He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
- Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
- Thou dost affect my manners.
Synonyms
* (make a false display of) fake, simulate, feignDerived terms
* affected * affectedly * affectedness * affectationEtymology 3
(etyl) affect, from (etyl) affectus,Noun
(en noun)- if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
- A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect .
