take effect

to start working The medicine takes effect in less than a half hour. New voter registration laws took effect last year.

1. To become operative, as under law or regulation: The curfew takes effect at midnight.

2. To produce the desired reaction: The antibiotics at last began to take effect.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Casey	['keisi]
Finnguala	-	Irish, Irish Mythology
Tyyne	TUY:-ne	Finnish
MÔNica	-	Portuguese
Stella (2)	-	Greek
Vasko	-	Macedonian, Bulgarian