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

  • (..) I need you to do, I need you to reset the system. Okay when I say you turn that power on, you turn it on. No matter what. Peter... - No matter what. Go! Go! seconds to impact. Now, Gwen, do it now...! Unit . This is La Guardia tower. Turn immediately to heading . Incoming traffic, I repeat . (..)
    2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • (..) We're flying blind out here, do you copy? Tower, repeat, we're "standby" only, what is happening? Sir, there're two inbound flights on intersecting path! Time to impact? Four and a half minutes. Clock it... Clock it right now. You're too late, Spider-Man. I designed this power grid. (..)
    2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2