TO THAT EFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to that effect mean? 

• TO THAT EFFECT (adverb)
  The adverb TO THAT EFFECT has 1 sense:

1. with that general meaning

  Familiarity information: TO THAT EFFECT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO THAT EFFECT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With that general meaning

Context example:

she said something to that effect

 Context examples 

I entered as well. ‘It is late,’ I heard her say, or words to that effect.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have understood something to that effect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“It is very neatly tied. I had already made a note to that effect,” said Lestrade complacently.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I ought to make you sign a paper to that effect.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I replied, “I, Miss Mills! I have done it! Behold the destroyer!”—or words to that effect—and hid my face from the light, in the sofa cushion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I reported to that effect to the Admiralty.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt, but I am sure I don't know why, that this was self-denying and devoted in Mrs. Micawber, and I uttered a murmur to that effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I asked John to go down to the turn- pike-house, where I had dismissed the chaise, and bring my trunk, which I had left there: and then, while I removed my bonnet and shawl, I questioned Mary as to whether I could be accommodated at the Manor House for the night; and finding that arrangements to that effect, though difficult, would not be impossible, I informed her I should stay.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But no hint to that effect escaping him and his countenance becoming more overcast, I suddenly remembered that I might have been all wrong, and was perhaps playing the fool unwittingly; and I began gently to withdraw myself from his arms—but he eagerly snatched me closer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)