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Cause Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cause? [n] any entity that causes events to happen [n] 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" [n] (law) 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" [n] a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" [n] events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash" [v] 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" [v] give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cause: campaign \| case \| causa \| causal agency \| causal agent \| crusade \| do \| drive \| effort \| get \| grounds \| have \| induce \| lawsuit \| make \| make \| movement \| reason \| stimulate \| suit Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cause: accomplish \| achieve \| act \| action \| activity \| agency \| agent \| ambition \| antecedent \| aspiration \| author \| basis \| be productive \| bear \| beget \| belief \| bind \| breed \| bring about \| bring forth \| bring into being \| bring on \| bring to effect \| bring to fruition \| bring to pass \| call \| call forth \| call up \| calling \| campaign \| case \| cause in court \| cause to \| commitment \| compel \| conceive \| concern \| consideration \| constrain \| create \| creator \| crusade \| determinant \| do \| draw on \| drive \| effect \| effectuate \| elicit \| enforce \| engender \| engineer \| establish \| evoke \| execute \| faith \| father \| force \| found \| foundation \| generate \| generator \| genesis \| gestate \| get up \| give birth to \| give occasion to \| give origin to \| give rise to \| goad \| goal \| good reason \| great cause \| ground \| grounds \| guiding light \| guiding star \| hatch \| have \| ideal \| impel \| impulse \| inaugurate \| incentive \| induce \| inducement \| industrialize \| inspiration \| inspire \| institute \| intention \| interest \| issue \| judicial process \| justification \| lawsuit \| lead to \| legal action \| legal case \| legal proceedings \| legal process \| legal remedy \| lifework \| litigation \| lodestar \| mainspring \| make \| mass movement \| mass-produce \| material basis \| matter \| motivate \| motive \| movement \| muster up \| necessity \| obligation \| occasion \| origin \| originate \| originator \| overproduce \| perform \| precipitate \| prime mover \| principle \| proceedings \| produce \| producer \| promote \| prompt \| prosecution \| provoke \| realize \| reason \| reason for being \| restrain \| right \| root \| sake \| score \| secure \| set afloat \| set on foot \| set up \| sire \| source \| spring \| substance \| suit \| suit at law \| summon up \| tie \| ulterior motive \| undertaking \| use force upon \| vocation \| volume-produce \| warrant \| work \| work up See Also \| actuate \| ad blitz \| ad campaign \| advertising campaign \| aetiology \| agent \| antecedent \| anti-war movement \| bastardy proceeding \| breed \| bring \| bring about \| call forth \| campaigning \| candidacy \| candidature \| catalyst \| cause of death \| civil suit \| class action \| class-action suit \| compel \| consumerism \| create \| criminal suit \| danger \| decide \| Destiny \| determine \| deus ex machina \| ecumenical movement \| effect \| effectuate \| electioneering \| encourage \| engender \| engine \| entity \| etiology \| evoke \| facilitate \| factor \| Fate \| feminism \| feminist movement \| first cause \| force \| force \| fund-raising campaign \| fund-raising drive \| fund-raising effort \| gay lib \| gay liberation movement \| human \| impel \| inception \| incite \| individual \| influence \| initiate \| inspire \| instigate \| justification \| kick up \| killer \| lead \| legal proceeding \| let \| life principle \| lost cause \| manipulator \| mold \| mortal \| motivate \| move \| mutagenesis \| nature \| obligate \| oblige \| occasion \| occult \| operator \| origin \| origination \| paternity suit \| person \| persuade \| physical thing \| pioneer \| political campaign \| power \| prime mover \| primum mobile \| proceeding \| proceedings \| producer \| prompt \| prompt \| propel \| provoke \| reform \| regulate \| set up \| shape \| solicit \| somebody \| someone \| soul \| spawn \| suborn \| supernatural \| sway \| venture \| vital principle \| war \| women's lib \| women's liberation movement \| youth crusade \| youth movement Cause In Webster's Dictionary \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. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. --Locke. 2. That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing. 3. Sake; interest; advantage. [Obs.] I did it not for his cause. --2 Cor. vii. 12. 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. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! --Shak. 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. God befriend us, as our cause is just. --Shak. The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. --Burke. {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. \Cause\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caused}; p. pr. & v. 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. I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days. --Gen. vii. 4. 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. \Cause\, v. i. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. [Obs.] --Spenser. \Cause\, conj. Abbreviation of {Because}. --B. Jonson.

Cause Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cause?

[n] any entity that causes events to happen
[n] 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"
[n] (law) 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"
[n] a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
[n] events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash"
[v] 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"
[v] give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"

Cause In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

         Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to
         make one thing begin to be.           --Locke.

2. That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground;
   reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

3. Sake; interest; advantage. [Obs.]

         I did it not for his cause.           --2 Cor. vii.
                                               12.

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.

5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question;
   affair in general.

         What counsel give you in this weighty cause! --Shak.

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.

         God befriend us, as our cause is just. --Shak.

         The part they take against me is from zeal to the
         cause.                                --Burke.

{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.


\Cause\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caused}; p. pr. & v. 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.

      I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
                                               --Gen. vii. 4.

      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.


\Cause\, v. i.
To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
[Obs.] --Spenser.


\Cause\, conj.
Abbreviation of {Because}. --B. Jonson.

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