Found 4 items, similar to Cause.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: cause
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cause
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cause
cause
v 1: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always
intentionally;
“cause a commotion”;
“make a stir”;
“cause an accident” [syn:
do,
make]
2: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;
“The ads
induced me to buy a VCR”;
“My children finally got me to
buy a computer”;
“My wife made me buy a new sofa” [syn:
induce,
stimulate,
have,
get,
make]
cause
n 1: events that provide the generative force that is the origin
of something;
“they are trying to determine the cause of
the crash”
2: a justification for something existing or happening;
“he had
no cause to complain”;
“they had good reason to rejoice”
[syn:
reason,
grounds]
3: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward
a particular end;
“he supported populist campaigns”;
“they
worked in the cause of world peace”;
“the team was ready
for a drive toward the pennant”;
“the movement to end
slavery”;
“contributed to the war effort” [syn:
campaign,
crusade,
drive,
movement,
effort]
4: any entity that causes events to happen [syn:
causal agent,
causal agency]
5: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law
whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
“the family
brought suit against the landlord” [syn:
lawsuit,
suit,
case,
causa]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cause
Cause
\Cause\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Caused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Causing.] [F. causer, fr. cause, fr. L. causa. See
Cause,
n., and cf.
Acouse.]
To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to
bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually
followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite
verb.
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I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
--Gen. vii. 4.
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Cause that it be read also in the church of the
Laodiceans. --Col. iv. 16.
Syn: To create; produce; beget; effect; occasion; originate;
induce; bring about.
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Cause
\Cause\ (k[add]z), n. [F. cause, fr. L. causa. Cf.
Cause, v.,
Kickshaw.]
1. That which produces or effects a result; that from which
anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
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Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to
make one thing begin to be. --Locke.
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2. That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground;
reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.
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3. Sake; interest; advantage. [Obs.]
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I did it not for his cause. --2 Cor. vii.
12.
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4. (Law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by
which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he
regards as his right; case; ground of action.
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5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question;
affair in general.
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What counsel give you in this weighty cause! --Shak.
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6. The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and
upheld by a person or party; a principle which is
advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.
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God befriend us, as our cause is just. --Shak.
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The part they take against me is from zeal to the
cause. --Burke.
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Efficient cause, the agent or force that produces a change
or result.
Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which anything
is done.
Formal cause, the elements of a conception which make the
conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the
idea viewed as a formative principle and co["o]perating
with the matter.
Material cause, that of which anything is made.
Proximate cause. See under
Proximate.
To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and
aims. --Macaulay.
Syn: Origin; source; mainspring; motive; reason; incitement;
inducement; purpose; object; suit; action.
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Cause
\Cause\, v. i.
To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
[Obs.] --Spenser.
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Cause
\Cause\, conj.
Abbreviation of
Because. --B. Jonson.
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