What's the difference between affect and fake?

Affect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
  • (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  • (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
  • (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  • (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
  • (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
  • (5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
  • (12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.

Fake


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
  • (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
  • (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • (v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
  • (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
  • (n.) A trick; a swindle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
  • (2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (3) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
  • (4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (5) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
  • (6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (7) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
  • (8) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
  • (9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
  • (10) He said the allegations made in Iran's media are based on fabricated contents or fake accounts and are untrue.
  • (11) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
  • (12) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
  • (13) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (14) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (15) Not only was the entire plot fake, but it seemed only Hussain's Islamic coaching, talk of cash rewards and constant attention was keeping it alive.
  • (16) Halderman received a fake $2m check from Letterman, went to work and was then arrested after leaving his office at CBS News.
  • (17) Plus we know that Facebook can already identify truly fake news – Zuckerberg pointed this out over the weekend.
  • (18) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (19) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
  • (20) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.

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