1. [n]  the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
2. [v]  act physically on; have an effect upon
3. [v]  have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
4. [v]  make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
5. [v]  have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
6. [v]  connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"

AFFECT is a 6 letter word that starts with A.

1. \Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p.
   of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make:
   cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See
   {Fact}.]
   1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
            As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.
            The climate affected their health and spirits.
                                                  --Macaulay.
   2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to
      touch.
            A consideration of the rationale of our passions
            seems to me very necessary for all who would affect
            them upon solid and pure principles.  --Burke.
   3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]
            As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than
            affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.
   4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to
      choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
            For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit
            for it, indeed.                       --Shak.
            Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank,
            nor court that of the great.          --Hazlitt.
   5. To dispose or incline.
            Men whom they thought best affected to religion and
            their country's liberty.              --Milton.
   6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]
            This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden.
   7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
            The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
                                                  --Newton.
   8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to
      assume; as, to affect ignorance.
            Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem
            unaffected.                           --Congreve.
            Thou dost affect my manners.          --Shak.
   9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]
            One of the domestics was affected to his special
            service.                              --Thackeray.
   Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt;
        soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
   

2. \Af*fect"\, n. [L. affectus.]
   Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.]
   --Shak.
   

3. \Af*fect"\, n. (Psychotherapy)
   The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental
   state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely
   dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the
   original idea.