What's the difference between asset and effect?

Asset


Definition:

  • (n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
  • (2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
  • (3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (4) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
  • (5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
  • (6) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (7) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
  • (8) If you get a fit Diaby back, it will be a major asset for our team.
  • (9) Unfortunately, it probably won’t happen with many countries … But if we can have a great relationship with Russia, and China, and all countries, I’m all for that, that would be a tremendous asset.
  • (10) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
  • (11) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
  • (12) But the full detail of the report and the scale of their assets is striking.
  • (13) Above all, Addis could help close tax loopholes that allow multinational companies to report profits in tax havens – rather than where their workforces, assets or sales are.
  • (14) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
  • (15) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
  • (16) Declarations are not public and the New York Times said four-fifths of the assets it found were held by relatives not covered by party rules, including his mother and various in-laws.
  • (17) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
  • (18) A trained economist, Klatten is Germany's richest woman with assets worth $14.3bn (and 58th richest in the world).
  • (19) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (20) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.

Effect


Definition:

  • (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
  • (n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
  • (n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
  • (n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
  • (n.) The purport; the sum and substance.
  • (n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
  • (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
  • (v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
  • (v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (3) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (4) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
  • (5) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
  • (6) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
  • (7) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (8) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
  • (9) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (10) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (11) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (12) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (13) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
  • (14) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
  • (15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
  • (16) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
  • (17) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (18) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (19) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (20) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).