nm. affection, dearness, fondness

v. affect, influence; impact (emotionally); act as if, pretend; attack (of a disease); encumber; afflicted with; (Latin America) hurt, damage; set aside

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n. affection, fondness

v. to make believe

v. (Port.=afectar) affect, have an affect on

(n.) = affection ; warmth ; tenderness ; caring ; attachment ; fondness.
Ex: These he bound up in three volumes, and on the fly leaf of the first volume wrote 'I have always retained a kind of affection for little story books, as they recall muy early days'.
Ex: The spark of warmth had emboldened her.
Ex: In addition to its weirdness, vitriol, and zaniness, the volume is characterized by solid good sense with an undertone of genuinely elegiac tenderness.
Ex: Parents can show warmth and caring by hugging their children and reassuring them of parental love and concern for their welfare.
Ex: Librarians have affirmed their attachment to freedom of expression.
Ex: It may sound trite, but it is indeed gratifying to know that one has made a difference in somebody's life and is remembered with fondness = Puede sonar poco novedoso, aunque de hecho es gratificante saber que uno ha sido importante en la vida de alguien y que se le recuerda con cariño.
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* afecto físico = physical affection.
* con afecto = fondly ; affectionately.
* devolver el afecto = return + Posesivo + affection ; reciprocate + Posesivo + affection.
* expresar afecto por = profess + affection for.
* ganarse + Posesivo + afecto = win + Posesivo + affection.
* manifestar afecto por = profess + affection for.
* mostrar afecto = show + Posesivo + affection.
* recordado con afecto = fondly remembered.

(v.) = affect ; colour [color, -USA] ; cut into ; disturb ; hit ; impair ; mar ; plague ; take + Posesivo + toll (on) ; beset (with/by) ; concern ; afflict ; disrupt ; bias ; prejudice ; cross over ; bedevil ; dog ; dent ; make + a dent in ; ail ; strike ; spill over into ; take + a toll on ; hobble ; cast + an impact.
Ex: Errors such as indexers assigning unsuitable terms to concepts, or relationships being omitted, will affect precision.
Ex: Lastly, the style, length and contents of an abstract should and will be coloured by the resources of the abstracting agency.
Ex: The paperback has cut sharply into fiction circulation, and Ennis is right in questioning this type of library.
Ex: Transcribe the data as found, however, if case endings are affected, if the grammatical construction of the data would be disturbed, or if one element is inseparably linked to another.
Ex: Flooding, fire, earthquake, collapsed buildings and landslides are the most frequent kinds of disasters to hit libraries: nearly all will lead to wet books.
Ex: It is difficult to neglect either entirely, without impairing the effectiveness in fulfilling the other objective.
Ex: Unfortunately, much of Metcalfe's writing is marred by what appears to be a deep-rooted prejudice against the classified approach, particularly as exemplified by Ranganathan.
Ex: Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.
Ex: The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.
Ex: Since 1963 they have produced their own bibliographic listings with various degrees of efficiency and comprehensiveness but usually with the same depressing tardiness in recording new publications which has so beset the UNDEX listings.
Ex: The first issue concerns the consistent description of subjects.
Ex: There will also be those who have in fact decided what information they need but are afflicted by the paralysis of 'unverbalised thought'.
Ex: Essentially, problem patrons can be considered in three groups: (1) the dangerous or apparently dangerous; (2) the patron who disrupts readers; and (3) the nuisance whose focus is the librarian.
Ex: A sample would be biased if some elements in the population have no chance of selection.
Ex: The very requirements for success in one area may prejudice success in another.
Ex: Conversely, indirect costs are those factors that are difficult to assign to individual products because they cross over several products.
Ex: The article has the title 'Piracy, crooked printers, inflation bedevil Russian publishing'.
Ex: The title of the article is 'Sweeping away the problems that dog the industry?'.
Ex: Perhaps by the year 2010 newspaper circulations might be seriously dented by online services.
Ex: Office automation products and techniques will be able to make a sizeable dent in the growing number of office workers.
Ex: The federal government has been once again defined as something broken and part of the problem ailing America.
Ex: The collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic have suffered from the floods that recently struck a large part of the country.
Ex: The artificiality of institutional concepts has spilled over into the structure of the publishing services on which the user depends for Community information.
Ex: Agoraphobia can take a toll on sufferers' families as well as the sufferers themselves, as some agoraphobics may become housebound or cling to certain people for safety.
Ex: With Florida's no-fault auto insurance law set to expire in October, there are fears that that medical services could be hobbled.
Ex: An interest-rate increase is a weapon to fight inflation which will cast an impact on all industries.
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* afectar a = cut across ; have + impact (on) ; have + effect on ; have + implication for ; impinge on/upon ; operate on ; carry over to ; bear (up)on.
* afectar a la eficacia de Algo = prejudice + effectiveness.
* afectar al mundo = span + the globe.
* afectar a todo = run through.
* afectar a todo el país = sweep + the country.
* afectar a una decisión = colour + decision ; affect + decision.
* afectar completamente = engulf.
* afectar directamente = cut to + the quick.
* afectar directamente a = cut to + the heart of.
* afectar fuertemente = hit + hard.
* afectar mucho = hit + hard.
* dificultad + afectar = difficulty + dog.
* no afectar = be immune against ; leave + unaffected.
* no afectar en lo más mínimo = be like water off a duck's back.
* problema + afectar = problem + afflict ; problem + plague.
* problemática que afecta a = issues + surrounding.
* que afecta a = surrounding.
* que afecta a toda la sociedad = culture-wide.
* que afecta a todas las culturas = culture-wide.
* que afecta a varias edades = cross-age [cross age].
* que afecta a varias generaciones = cross-generational.