Affect vs Result - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between affect and result

is that affect is (obsolete) a desire, an appetite while result is (obsolete) to leap back; to rebound.

As verbs the difference between affect and result

is that affect is to influence or alter or affect can be (obsolete|transitive) to aim for, to try to obtain while result is to proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.

As nouns the difference between affect and result

is that affect is (obsolete) one's mood or inclination; mental state while result is that which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

As an interjection result is

(uk) an exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

affect

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) affecter, (etyl) affecter, and its source, the participle stem of (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To influence or alter.

The experience affected me deeply.

The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.

* Macaulay

The climate affected their health and spirits.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Steven Sloman, volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

To move to emotion.

He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.

* Edmund Burke

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

Hepatitis affects the liver.

(archaic) To dispose or incline.

* Milton

men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty

(archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.

* Newton

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.

(archaic) To assign; to appoint.

* Thackeray

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) attack

Derived terms

* affectingly

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (see Etymology 1, above).

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To aim for, to try to obtain.

* Dryden

This proud man affects imperial sway.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:

From that day forth she gan to him affect , / And daily more her favour to augment […].

*, I.2.4.vii:

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 […].

* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), :

But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect .

* Fuller

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected , rather honoured than loved, her.

(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

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.

* Hazlitt

Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.

To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.

to affect ignorance

He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.

* Congreve

Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.

* Shakespeare

Thou dost affect my manners.

Synonyms

* (make a false display of) fake, simulate, feign

Derived terms

* affected * affectedly * affectedness * affectation

Etymology 3

(etyl) affect, from (etyl) affectus,

Noun

(en noun)
(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:

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 [...].

* 2004 , Jeffrey Greenberg & Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology , p. 407:

A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect .

Usage notes

Affect'' and effect can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word ''affect'' is limited to the above psychology uses and the definitions for ''effect are much more common. See also the above.

Derived terms

* affect display * flat affect * labile affect

References

* * English heteronyms English words affected by confusion

result
English

Verb
(en verb) (intransitive)
To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.

* Tillotson

Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=United's hopes of mounting a serious response suffered a blow within two minutes of the restart when Evans, who had endured a miserable afternoon, lost concentration and allowed Balotelli to steal in behind him. The defender's only reaction was to haul the Italian down, resulting in an inevitable red card.}}
To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

(legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.

(obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.

* Alexander Pope

the huge round stone, resulting with a bound

Synonyms
* follow, arise
Related terms
* resultant
Noun
(en noun)
That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result . If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result .

(label) A flying back; resilience.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

(label) The final score in a game.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results' over the wireless. And ' results are all that concern me. […]”}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=David Ornstein, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.}}
(label) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.

Derived terms
* as a result * resultful * resultless
Interjection
(en interjection)
(UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

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* 2010 April 10, Amy Pond, in The Beast Below (series 5, episode 2), written by Steven Moffat:

(picking a lock) I wonder what I did...

(the lock opens) Hey hey, result !

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