impact

Definition

  • noun: the act or force of one thing hitting another
  • verb: to fix firmly by or as if by packing or wedging
  • verb: to have a strong and often bad effect on (something or someone)
  • often + 'on'
  • synonyms: affect, strike, collision

Examples

  • We hope that these programs will have a positive 'impact on' the community. [=will help the community]

  • The stress of her job is having a negative 'impact on' her health. [=is harming her health]

  • We need to be concerned about the environmental 'impacts' of all this construction.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ... so they brought me in ... ... during this time of development. We spoke before of the sort of impact ... ... that comic books can have ... ... in terms of their frozen graphic moments. What we like about slow motion is (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited
  • (..) -Matrix sweat. It smells like kung fu. You don't often read something and go: "This could impact how we view a particular genere." This has that chance, and people will mimic it." Here they come, ladies and gentlemen ... (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited