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A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.

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effect
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 11
1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
2. Manifestation; expression; sign.
3. In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
5. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
6. The purport; the sum and substance.
7. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
8. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; - with to.
9. Goods; movables; personal estate; - sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
Part of Speech: verb transitive
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
Examples of usage:
  • Wall, I told him I thought that would be a good plan, or words to that effect. - "Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician", Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley).
  • See that curious effect, Bianca! - "The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory", Margaret Vandercook.
  • The Disintegrators' Awful Effect. - "Edison's Conquest of Mars", Garrett Putman Serviss.
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