It was nearly an hour before the sleeping pill took effect.
The new tax law will not take effect until January.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
take effect — index occur (happen) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
take effect — {v. phr.} 1. To have an unexpected or intended result; cause a change. * /It was nearly an hour before the sleeping pill took effect./ 2. To become lawfully right, or operative. * /The new tax law will not take effect until January./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take effect — {v. phr.} 1. To have an unexpected or intended result; cause a change. * /It was nearly an hour before the sleeping pill took effect./ 2. To become lawfully right, or operative. * /The new tax law will not take effect until January./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take effect — 1) to start to produce the results that were intended Try to relax for a couple of hours until the pills take effect. Measures to reduce costs are beginning to take effect. 2) if a new rule or law takes effect, it starts to be used The new… … English dictionary
take effect — 1) these measures will take effect in May Syn: come into force, come into operation, become operative, begin, become valid, become law, apply, be applied 2) the drug started to take effect Syn: work, act, be effective … Thesaurus of popular words
take effect — have an effect, cause a change In two minutes the drug will take effect and you will feel sleepy … English idioms
take effect — verb to become active; to become effective The medication wont begin to take effect for 3 4 hours … Wiktionary
take effect — to start working. The medicine takes effect in less than a half hour. New voter registration laws took effect last year … New idioms dictionary
take effect — become legally right or operative The new laws related to alcohol took effect early last month … Idioms and examples
To take effect — Take Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
