Commanding and Effective

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
  • synonyms: command
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: command, require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
  • synonyms: command
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control, command

adjective

• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: dominating, overlooking

• (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
• (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
• (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

adjective

• Producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect.
  • usage: "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law"
  • synonyms: effectual, efficacious
• Able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively.
  • usage: "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons...-G. B. Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution"
  • synonyms: efficient
• Works well as a means or remedy.
  • usage: "an effective reprimand"; "a lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat"
• Exerting force or influence.
  • usage: "the law is effective immediately"; "a warranty good for two years"; "the law is already in effect (or in force)"
  • synonyms: good, in effect, in force
• Existing in fact; not theoretical; real.
  • usage: "a decline in the effective demand"; "confused increased equipment and expenditure with the quantity of effective work done"
• Ready for service.
  • usage: "the fort was held by about 100 effective soldiers"

• (n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe.
• (n.) One who is capable of active service.
• (n.) That which produces a given effect; a cause.
• (a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
• (n.) The serviceable soldiers in a country; an army or any military body, collectively; as, France's effective.