(a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
(n.) That which produces a given effect; a cause.
(n.) One who is capable of active service.
(n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe.
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).
Oomph
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A pologies in advance for the lack of fizz, the absence of oomph, the non-appearance of verve in today's Rumour Mill.
(2) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
(3) Spectacular architecture, vibrant festivals and flamenco flamboyance; Seville has plenty of peacock oomph.
(4) "If Sixty Minutes and the news outlets portray this as a new wave in American politics, and De Blasio as a courageous man taking on inequality, they could create an oomph that will make other politicians afraid to oppose him."
(5) From this perspective, the relative lack of earning and public power of the majority of women can be seen not as the result of discrimination but of good old nature (women choosing to do less paid work), or a simple lack of personal or career oomph.
(6) There is a little bit more oomph to these storms when they do develop, the so-called nor’easters in particular,” said Nor’easters pack their punch from the contrast between cold land temperatures and the warmer Gulf stream and surrounding waters.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Queueing at a London Muslim Centre meeting The star turn is Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones , who gives a speech, some of which he reads off his phone, about the Diggers and suffragettes; it’s delivered with his customary oomph.
(8) Moreover, though modern Tories have their own versions of all these problems, Labour seems to suffer from an altogether deeper pathology – perhaps because, whereas the Conservatives are confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph, Labour is still so scared of its own shadow that it too often ends up sounding downright strange.
(9) Thankfully André Schürrle and Mario Götze eventually reduced the deficit, putting a bit more oomph into his delivery.
(10) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
(11) Fed officials are likely to view the economy as having a bit more ‘oomph’ than originally thought heading into Q3,” he wrote in a note to investors.
(12) There again, there were rumblings about developments over the next couple of days, and the idea that – just maybe – a few high-ranking Labour people might belatedly act, and give the third anti-Brown heave the oomph and coherence it has so far lacked.
(13) Within seven days of his appointment last month as care services minister, Lamb was promising the "political oomph" necessary to take the concept of integration from the pages of academic journals and isolated examples of good practice, and apply it across the health and social care system.
(14) He is absolutely correct, too, in his description of the Tories, who are "confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph".
(15) I’m not sure about Jeremy Corbyn at all – he hasn’t got the oomph to be leader,” she says.
(16) It takes the oomph out of a good comedic punch if the target is an inflatable clown who keeps popping back up.
(17) The third Scotland's main constituent parts are National Collective, the Radical Independence Campaign – a loose coalition of greens, ex-Labour lefties and socialist-inclined newbies – and, by way of ideological oomph, the Jimmy Reid Foundation .
(18) I know he will put everything into it to give NCS the additional support and oomph it needs.
(19) It certainly is: this is a proposal, after all, with all the ideological oomph and toxicity of the poll tax , if not more.
(20) In a sense, the lack of oomph in the property market is curious.