Influencenoun
The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
‘I have absolutely no influence over him.’;
Importancenoun
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
Influencenoun
An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
‘I'm not able to exercise influence over him.’;
Importancenoun
significance or prominence.
Influencenoun
A person or thing exerting such power or action.
‘He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections.’;
Importancenoun
personal status or standing.
Influencenoun
(astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
Importancenoun
Something of importance.
Influencenoun
(obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
Importancenoun
The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
‘Thy own importance know,Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.’;
Influencenoun
(electricity) Electrostatic induction.
Importancenoun
Subject; matter.
‘Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature.’;
Influenceverb
(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
‘The politician wants to influence the public.’; ‘I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.’;
Importancenoun
Import; meaning; significance.
‘The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow.’;
Influenceverb
(intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
Importancenoun
Importunity; solicitation.
‘At our importance hither is he come.’;
Influenceverb
To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.
Importancenoun
the quality of being important and worthy of note;
‘the importance of a well-balanced diet’;
Influencenoun
A flowing in or upon; influx.
‘God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.’;
Importancenoun
a prominent status;
‘a person of importance’;
Influencenoun
Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, physical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which affects, modifies, or sways; as, the influence which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers, of the stars over affairs.
‘Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars, evil aspects.’; ‘Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?’; ‘She said : "Ah, dearest lord! what evil starOn you hath frown'd, and poured, his influence bad?"’;
Influencenoun
Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
‘Such influence hath your excellency.’;
Influencenoun
Induction.
Influenceverb
To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to affect; to move; to persuade; to induce.
‘These experiments succeed after the same manner in vacuo as in the open air, and therefore are not influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere.’; ‘This standing revelation . . . is sufficient to influence their faith and practice, if they attend.’; ‘The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy.’;
Influencenoun
a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc;
‘used her parents' influence to get the job’;
Influencenoun
causing something without any direct or apparent effort
Influencenoun
a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do;
‘her wishes had a great influence on his thinking’;
Influencenoun
the effect of one thing (or person) on another;
‘the influence of mechanical action’;
Influencenoun
one having power to influence another;
‘she was the most important influence in my life’; ‘he was a bad influence on the children’;
Influenceverb
have and exert influence or effect;
‘The artist's work influenced the young painter’; ‘She worked on her friends to support the political candidate’;
Influenceverb
shape or influence; give direction to;
‘experience often determines ability’; ‘mold public opinion’;
Influenceverb
induce into action by using one's charm;
‘She charmed him into giving her all his money’;
