Cause

Definition: Cause

Cause

Noun

1. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash".

2. A justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice".

3. 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".

4. Any entity that causes events to happen.

5. (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".

Verb

1. Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cause" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Cause \Cause\ (k[add]z), noun. [French cause, from Latin causa. Compare to Cause, v., Kickshaw.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cause

Cause

Verb: be the cause; n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of.

Lawsuit

Noun: lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; dispute.

Production

Induce, superinduce; suscitate; cause; acquire.

Crosswords: Cause

French (brief, case, cause, origin, reason).

The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity toity yankee bitch and I'd like nothing more than to piss you off (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

I got you these flowers that were on sale, cause they're not fresh (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

Now did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

I really don't want to cause a riot with this hearse (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos)

But now at least I know its not some place you can look for, cause its not where you go. Its how you feel for a moment in your life when your apart of something, and if you find that moment it lasts forever (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge)

No need to sit, cause we're 2 Unlimited (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

No luv for my daddy, cause tha coward wuzn't there (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

No cause I am already here, oh no (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

Cause girl I love you more than words can show (Ready Or Not; performing artist: After 7)

Did you feel guilty cause you’re a survivor (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If You Drink Don't Park, Accidents Cause People. (references; author: unknown)

On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness. (references; author: unknown)

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause pregnancy. (references; author: unknown)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (references; author: unknown)

Cause for Concern (1974)

Elle flingue Elle cause plus (1972)

à cause d'une femme À cause (1963)

Mon lapin Cause toujours (1961)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cause of Death : A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine (Howdunit Series) (reference)

• For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (reference)

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series) (reference)

• The Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Simplified Approach to Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Workplace Errors (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• California Common Cause (reference)

• Cause Advocate (reference)

• Common Cause (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cause of Death (reference)

• Just Cause (reference)

• Rebel Without a Cause (Widescreen Edition) (reference)

• Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 65: Improbable Cause (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Devil Without a Cause [Clean] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown are electron micrographs of the family of retroviruses that reproduce in t-lymphocytes. Retroviruses, which cause a variety of naturally occurring cancers in many animal species, also cause cancers in human beings. The first two human retroviruses to be discovered and characterized, human t-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and type II (HTLV-II), have been associated with the human cancers known, respectively, as adult t-cell leukemia and hairy cell leukemia. HTLV-III is the AIDS virus, now called HIV-I. Epidemiologic studies have shown that HTLV-I infection and t-cell malignancy both cluster in certain geographic areas and in certain populations, and suggest that transmission occurs in the household, through sexual contacts, and perhaps at birth. See artwork: GR-30. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The photo of an electron micrograph of HHV-6 also includes a labeled insert of the mature virus particle. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells and is the cause of the childhood rash "roseola" and some cases of mononucleosis. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer).

P. carinii is the causal agent of a severe pneumonitis, resulting from the proliferation of this fungus in the lungs of immunocompromised patients. Pneumocystis carinii is a major cause of death in AIDS patients. Credit: CDC.

H. ducreyi is the primary cause for a condition know as “Human Genital Ulcer Disease” or “Chancroid”, especially in developing countries. The transmission of this bacterium and HIV has been epidemiologically linked. Credit: CDC.

Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell. The carapace was empty. If this was a live animal, picking up by tail could cause injury to the crab. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Scientists conducting studies of Weddell seals Hood placed over head causes seal to cause seal to not move. Scientists then tag seal's rear fins. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Key Island, a barrier island, was infested with Australian pine trees, an invasive non-native plant that resul ted in significant loss of biodiversity of native plant communities. Salt-toler ant, they have shallow root systems that cause them to topple easily in high win ds, creating obstacles for Atlantic loggerhead turtles trying to nest on beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 41. Helical mounting mechanism of Negretti and Zambra. This mechanism was meant to cause the reversing thermometer of Negretti and Zambra to flip at the required depth. The helical screw would measure the depth on the way down and release the mounting at the desired depth. James Ferguson of the CHALLENGER modified this mechanism and tested it in the Sulu Sea at over 4000 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 54. Richter mounting with messenger and pump brake for slowing reversing action. With the earlier models used by Doflein, the mounting would flop over too quickly and jar the mercury column sufficiently to cause its separation. To slow down the reversing motion, a piston pump mechanism was installed on the mounting. This mounting was employed by Doflein off the coast of Japan in 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No constable shall compel any knight to give money in lieu of castle-guard, when he is willing to perform it in his own person, or (if he himself cannot do it from any reasonable cause) then by another responsible man. (reference)

They saw, that to live by one man's will, became the cause of all men's misery. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. (reference)

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

No cause has been shown, and the present motion is for a mandamus. (reference)

The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. (reference)

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address)

The Allied and Associated Governments and the German Government will cause to be respected and maintained the graves of the soldiers and sailors buried in their respective territories. (reference)

That I feel is an open cause of policy of very great importance . ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

The limitations on the interrogation process required for the protection of the individual's constitutional rights should not cause an undue interference with a proper system of law enforcement, as demonstrated by the procedures of the FBI and the safeguards afforded in other jurisdictions. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was natural for him to feel that he had cause to sigh

Could that be the cause of his despondency

With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact

He seemed to be thoughtfully seeking, beyond the apparent life, for its cause, its explanation, or its excuse

For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror

Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met Is to determine of the coronation

And they sat in the sun while the examination went on, while the cause of death was found and the certificate signed

They apprehended my breaking loose, that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine

All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Smoking is one cause. (references)

Its cause is unknown. (references)

CVS has no known cause. (references)

Business

The price/weight ratio will cause a loss for the company. (references)

Thus, the law is expected to cause a contraction in this segment. (references)

They currently produce very toxic chemicals that cause serious pollution. (references)

Children

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

One underlying cause is the large number of children born to teenage mothers. (references)

Nepal

The age difference in marriage often is cited as one cause of domestic violence. (references)

Brazil

Homicide is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14, and only 1.9 percent of murderers are serving prison sentences. (references)

Civil Liberties

Brunei

The new law allows the Government to close a newspaper without prior notice and without showing cause. (references)

Algeria

Some other unlicensed groups continue to be active, including groups dedicated to the cause of persons who have disappeared. (references)

Zimbabwe

On November 16, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence; the judge ruled that the police made the arrest without reasonable cause. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

The resulting bottlenecks cause wage pressures. (references)

Morocco

Labor law makes firing workers for cause cumbersome. (references)

West Bank

Time-consuming Israeli security checks can cause delays. (references)

Human Rights

Vanuatu

Judges cannot be removed without cause. (references)

Azerbaijan

TB continued to be the main cause of death in prisons. (references)

Turkey

If delay may cause harm to a case, prosecutors may authorize a search. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

In 2000 Presidium Council leaders traveled throughout the province to publicize the results of the congress, regularly met with government officials in Jakarta, and journeyed to other countries to advance the Papuan cause. (references)

India

The Jharkhand Adivasi Chhatra Sangh has called for "ulgulan" (mass awakening) to fight for the cause of the tribals and to demand a 60 percent reservation for tribals in jobs and education, despite the fact that Jharkhand's tribal population make up only 27 percent of the population. (references)

Minorities

India

The erection of statues of Dalit heroes or of the flags of Dalit parties in public places often becomes the cause of inter-caste tension. (references)

Political Economy

Congo

The war continued to cause large numbers of internally displaced persons (IDP's). (references)

PARAGUAY

If the relationship is ended without just cause, the foreign company must pay an indemnity. (references)

RUSSIA

Counterfeit goods also cause significant losses and may pose dangers to consumer health and safety. (references)

Political Rights

Hong Kong

A motion proposed by a prodemocracy legislator to repeal restrictions on private members' bills was rejected in January 2000; however, the Legislative Council's degree of popular representation and outspokenness gives the Government cause to consider its views. (references)

Trade

Tanzania

These hindrances can also cause unpredictable delays when importing goods into the country. (references)

Guyana

Many are still unfamiliar with the new system, sometimes making mistakes that cause lengthy delays. (references)

Travel

Senegal

Malaria is a leading cause of death in the countryside. (references)

Egypt

Eating uncooked vegetables should be avoided, because this can cause traveler's diarrhea. (references)

Norway

The northerly latitude can cause road conditions to vary greatly depending on weather and time of year. (references)

Women

Sweden

If gender is found to be the cause for a difference in salary, pay must be equalized within 3 years. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

At least 10 of the 11 Arab women killed during the year by male relatives were killed in family "honor" cases; families often attempted to cover up the cause of such deaths. (references)

Ghana

Most accused witches are older women, often widows, who are identified by fellow villagers as the cause of difficulties, such as illness, crop failure, or financial misfortune. (references)

Worker Rights

India

An investigation into the cause of the disaster began during the year. (references)

Portugal

Poor environmental controls in textile production also cause considerable concern. (references)

Syria

Rules and regulations severely limit the ability of an employer to dismiss employees without cause. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

My cause

Let Baal defend his cause

Expressions using "cause": be the cause of smth. ♦ cause a bedlam ♦ cause a disturbance ♦ cause a problem ♦ cause a scandal ♦ cause a stench ♦ cause a stir ♦ cause abortion ♦ cause alarm ♦ cause and effect ♦ cause anxiety ♦ cause bad blood ♦ cause bitterness ♦ cause blindness ♦ cause celebre ♦ cause damage ♦ cause despair ♦ cause disgrace ♦ cause disgust ♦ cause disturbance ♦ cause effect graph ♦ cause effect graphing ♦ cause failure ♦ cause flatulence ♦ cause for complaint ♦ cause grief ♦ cause harm ♦ cause havoc ♦ cause heartburn ♦ cause irreparable damage ♦ cause joy ♦ cause list ♦ cause loss ♦ cause love ♦ cause of action ♦ cause of death ♦ cause of pain ♦ cause of the disease ♦ cause offense ♦ cause outside one's control ♦ cause pain ♦ cause pleasure ♦ cause sclerosis ♦ cause side effects ♦ cause smb. a trouble ♦ cause smb. damage ♦ cause smb. to do smth. ♦ cause sorrow ♦ cause storm ♦ cause the death ♦ cause to be perceived ♦ cause to be thankful ♦ cause to blossom ♦ cause to bring ♦ cause to collapse ♦ cause to cut ♦ cause to draw ♦ cause to dream ♦ cause to faint ♦ cause to fall ♦ cause to ferment ♦ cause to flee ♦ cause to flow ♦ cause to fly ♦ cause to forget ♦ cause to gallop ♦ cause to hear ♦ cause to land ♦ cause to mate ♦ cause to meet ♦ cause to miscarry ♦ cause to rot ♦ cause to rule ♦ cause to sink ♦ cause to sit down ♦ cause to sleep ♦ cause to speak ♦ cause to sprout ♦ cause to undulate ♦ cause to weep ♦ cause to yawn ♦ cause trouble ♦ cause unhappiness ♦ cause variable ♦ common cause ♦ complain without cause ♦ Efficient cause ♦ espouse a cause ♦ explore the cause of the problem ♦ final cause ♦ fire cause ♦ first cause ♦ Formal cause ♦ gain one's cause ♦ he shall have cause to remember me! ♦ hear a cause ♦ in the cause of ♦ just cause ♦ lost cause ♦ make common cause ♦ make common cause with. Additional references.

Beginning with "cause": cause-and-effect, cause-effect, cause-effect graphing, cause-effect-relation, cause-specific, cause-to-effect, cause-way.

Ending with "cause": all-cause.

Afrikaans

veroorsaak (activate, give, give rise to), rede (account, logical, logical reasoning, reason), aandoen (activate, affect, call, call at, give, give rise to), berokken (activate, give, give rise to), beleg (cause to take place, cover, invest, siege), belê (cause to take place, cover, invest). (various references)

Albanian

tharm (acid, ferment, leaven, principle, yeast, zyme), sjell (adduce, bear, beget, bring, carry, draw, engender, fetch, induce, inflict, return), shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, call forth, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), shkak (account, come off, motivation, motive, occasion, parent, reason, root, score, spring), qëllim (aim, ambition, aspiration, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, intention, Mark, mission, notion, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, term, thought, view), padi (accusation, action, charge, count, indictment, plaint, suit), kauzë, degjeneroj (corrupt, degenerate), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak), arsye (account, argument, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), arësye (account, argument, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), çështje (affair, business, case, concern, count, issue, matter, point, problem, question, shebang, subject). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موجه (guided, navigable), ‏قضية (affair, business, case, issue, matter, question), ‏قاضى (adjudicate, litigate, proceed, prosecute, sue), ‏سبب (account, beget, breed, bring about, give rise to, ground, inspire, motif, motive, occasion, procure, purpose, ratio, reason, rise, score, source, wherefore, why), ‏علة سبب (disease, malady), ‏ضم جهده, ‏القضية, ‏أيد فكرة ما, ‏دعوى قضائية, ‏دافع باعث (ground, impetus, impulse, incentive), ‏داع (occasion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кауза, карам (auto, cart, drive, get along, have, impel, keep, lead, make, move, oar, occasion, pilot, propel, render, roll along, run, sail, serve, set, set off, start, urge on, wheel), основание (basis, foundation, ground, grounds, merits, occasion, reason, subject, warrant, warranty), заставям (coerce, compel, get, will), причинявам (bring, bring about, bring forth, create, do, effect, engender, generate, induce, inflict, make, procure, produce, putrefy, set off, set up, throw down, work, work up), причинна връзка (concatenation), причина (account, excuse, factor, occasion, parent, reason, room, score, spring, subject, why), пораждам (beget, breed, call forth, engender, evoke, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, start up, stir), повод (ground, halter, handle, motive, occasion, peg, reason, rein, room, signal, subject), дело (act, action, affair, case, deed, file, handiwork, life work, plea, suit). (various references)

Chinese 

致使 (result in), 起因, 繇 (folk-song, forced labor, interpretations of the trigrams, means), 緣由 (reason), 緣故 (reason), 由 (because of, by, due to, follow, from, it is for...to, reason, to, to leave it), 原因 (origin, reason, root cause), 原 (clay sheep buried with the dead, former, level, original, primary, raw, source), 事業 (enterprise, plant, undertaking), 故 (deceased, happening, instance, old, reason), 因 (because, reason). (various references)

Czech

zpùsobit (bring about, entail, inflict, make, raise, wreak), zavinit, zapříèinit, vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call forth, call up, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir), vìc (affair, business, case, concern, re, stuff, thing), udìlat (do, take), pohnutka (inducement, motive), plodit (breed, fruit, generate, procreate, spawn), příèina (occasion, reason, resort, source, why), natropit, kauza (case), dùvod (argument, grounds, matter, occasion, reason). (various references)

Danish

årsag (reason). (various references)

Dutch

maken (achieve, act, carry out, compose, create, develop, do, fabricate, fix, get, make, manufacture, perform, repair, write), laten doen (get, make), laten (allow, fail, get, leave, let, make, neglect, omit, release), doen (achieve, act, carry out, do, get, lay down, make, perform, place, put, put down, take action). (various references)

Esperanto

okazigi (cause to take place), kaŭzo (reason), kaŭzi (give rise to), igi (get, make). (various references)

Faeroese

orsaka (activate, excuse, give rise to), orsøk (account, motive, reason), lata (allow, dedicate, deliver, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell), gera (achieve, act, activate, build, carry out, construct, do, form, get, give rise to, make, perform, shape, take action), fáa at (get, make). (various references)

Farsi 

موضوع منازع فیه , موجب (Incentive, Inducement), هدف (Aim, Butt, Goal, Mark, Object, Parrot, Point, Prick, Purpose, Scope, Sight, Target, Victim), نهضت (Crusade, Movement), واداشتن (Appoint, Stand, Wrest), سبب شدن , سبب (Account, Causer, Motive, Reason), علت (Disease, Motive, Reason, Trill), جنبش (Braid, Bustle, Commotion, Flicker, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Rock, Stir, Tremor, Vibration), انگیزه (Goad, Impetus, Incentive, Inducement, Motive, Mover, Propellant, Stimulant, Stimulus). (various references)

Finnish

syy (account, fault, fibre, filament, ground, occasion, reason). (various references)

French

causer (cause to take place), cause (case), rendre. (various references)

Frisian

oarsaak (reason), oandeare (activate, give rise to), feroarsaakje (activate, give rise to). (various references)

German

ursache (causale, ground, motive, occasion, principle, reason, source), verursachen (activate, bring about, bring on, create, generate, give rise to, occasion, originate, provoke, set up, spark, to cause, to originate), grund (account, bed, bottom, call, causing, depths, earth, field, foundation, ground, grounds, land, matter, motive, occasion, reason, score, soil, subject, territorially), zufügen (activate, add, be added, give rise to, inflict, to inflict), veranlassung (call, inducement, inductance, instigation, motive, occasion, origination, procurement, reason), veranlassen (activate, arrange, get, give rise to, incline, induce, initiate, make, procure, prompt, start, to cause, to dispose, to induce), sache (affair, article of property, business, business deal, case, concern, job, matter, object, question, subject, thing), machen (achieve, act, be, Bob, boulder, carry out, contract, cook, creates, creating, do, fix, get, give, go, go on, have, hold out, make, makes, making, matter, offer, open up, perform, play, produce, proffer, pull down, put, put down, put out, render, take, to make, volunteer, win), hervorrufen (arouse, burgeon, call for, call forth, call to come out, cause to take place, create, evocation, evoke, give rise to, induce, stimulate, to cause, to evoke, to excite), bewirken (achieve, activate, bring about, effect, effectuate, give rise to, induce, procure, produce, to cause, to effect, work), anlass (inducement, occasion, reason, social). (various references)

Greek 

προκαλώ (beget, bring about, bring on, call forth, call out, challenge, dare, defy, engender, evoke, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke), προξενώ (bring about, congeries, engender, occasion, procure, produce), αιτία (call, causation, ground, occasion, reason, sake). (various references)

Hebrew 

גורם (agent, factor, ground). (various references)

Hungarian

per (action, action at law, lawsuit, legal action, litigation, proceedings, suit), ok (begetter, motive, occasion, parent, quarrel, reason, score), indok (argument, motivation, plea), indíték (ground, grounds, impulse, inducement, motion, motivation, motive, persuasive, reason, stimulus), alapos ok, ügy (affair, business, business deal, case, case at issue, go, issue, it is a case in point, matter, proceeding, proposition, shebang, thing, to come out badly of an affair). (various references)

Icelandic

orsaka (activate, give rise to), orsök (reason). (various references)

Indonesian

sebab (because), pangkal (beginning, starting point), menyebabkan (engender, induce, motivate), bikin (make), bibit (germ, prospective, seed, seedling), benih (embryo, germ, origin, seed, semen). (various references)

Italian

causare (activate, bring, bring about, do, effect, give, give rise to, produce, start off, work), causa (account, action, case, law, lawsuit, litigation, plea, principle, reason, sake, score, suit), ragione (account, ground, justification, logical, logical reasoning, motive, occasion, origination, proportion, rate, reason, right, sake, sanity, sense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誘発 (induce, lead up to), 由 (reason, significance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いん (factor, mark, member, official rank, permit, print, rhyme, seal, sincerity, stamp, yin), じゃっき (bringing about, provocation), げんゆう (existing, present, reason), げんいん (origin, present members, reduction of staff, source), よし (all right, all right!, bulrush, good, OK!, reason, reed, significance, so, well), ゆえ (circumstances, reason), ゆえん (acquaintance, affinity, grounds, lamp soot, reason, relation, way of doing), じゆう (as it pleases you, freedom, liberty, reason), らいゆ (origin), たね (copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, seed, source, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), いんゆ (allusion, metaphor), せい (companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), せいいん (active member, member, origin, regular member), ほんげん (origin, principle, root), くちび (fuse, origin, spark plug), きいん (dignity, origin, refinement, shogihall), おこり (beginning, genesis, origin, source), ゆうはつ (induce, lead up to). (various references)

Korean 

원인. (various references)

Malagasy

mahafantatra, hahafinaritra (cause to be wonderful). (various references)

Malay

membangkitkan (activate, give rise to). (various references)

Manx

resoon (logic, rationality, reason, reasonableness), oyr (incentive, matter, motive, occasion, reason), fa (reason, why), cooish (business, case, chat, conversation, love affair, suit, theme). (various references)

Papiamen

causa (reason), kousa (activate, give rise to). (various references)

Pig Latin

ausecay.(various references)

Polish

czynić czymś (get, make), sprawiać (activate, give rise to), skłaniać do czegoś (get, make), powodować (activate, give rise to). (various references)

Portuguese

causar (activate, beget, cause to take place, generate, give rise to, handsel, inchoate, induce, let, motivate, motive, occasion, operate, originate, provoke, put, rattle, start), causa (account, affair, brief, business, business deal, case, fortuity, fount, inducement, lawsuit, matter, motive, mover, occasion, parent, reason, root, sake, wherefore), provocar (abet, add fuel to, aggravate, arouse, bring, bring on, cause to take place, challenge, court, defy, egg, egg on, excite, gall, generate, incite, induce, infuse, instigate, invite, nettle, occasion, pick, provoke, raise, rattle, rouse, solicit, start, stimulate, stir up, waken), produzir (accustom, activate, beget, bring, bring forth, create, crop, engender, form, generate, give rise to, grate, grow, have, heave, induce, inure, make, manufacture, originate, procreate, progress, spin, supply, turn out, vesicate, yield). (various references)

Romanian

causå (reason), cauza (bring, determine, draw on, entail, inflict, make, occasion, procure, provoke), cauzã (account, bottom, call, consideration, ground, induction, motive, reason, root, score, subject, wherefore, whys), pricinã (affair, motive, reason, spring, trouble, wherefore), aduce (accompany, adduce, afford, bear, bring, bring in, collect, convey, drive, fetch, furnish, gather, get, lead, produce, secure, supply, take, transport, yield), decide (appoint, decide, determine, fix, judge, resolve, state), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), explicaţie (account, construction, exegesis, explanation, gloss, purport, Rede), interes (advantage, benefit, concern, convenience, Favor, favour, interest, significance, stake), isca (appear, begin), motiv (account, call, consideration, ground, impulse, motive, occasion, reason, score, spring, subject, wherefore, whys), îndupleca (cede, determine, limber, melt, reason, relent, yield), origine (ancestry, beginning, birth, blood, commencement, derivation, descent, emanation, etymology, extraction, fountain-head, genesis, growth, origin, origination, parent, parentage, provenance, rise, root, root stock, source, spring, strain), vinã (aberration, blame, charge, default, fault, guilt, lode, onus), pricinui (draw, generate, give, occasion, spring), prilejui (make, occasion), procura (acquire, bear, bring, find oneself, get, obtain, procure, raise, secure, supply), produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, create, deliver, engender, fabricate, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, manufacture, mill, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield), provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay on, lay up, Mount, place, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put on, put up, repose, set, sow, stick), solicita (apply for, attract, beg, call on, crave, drive, entail, have, invite, request, require, require smth. of smb., solicit, strain, stress), stârni (arouse, create, enkindle, excite, fan, ferment, generate, hunt out, incite, induce, invite, kick up, kindle, pander to, pique, quicken, remove, rouse, spring, start, stir, tickle), subiect (copy, fable, material, patient, plot, reason, record, subject, theme, topic), suscita (arouse), urzi (brew, devise, hatch, plot, warp), obiect (article, implement, object, reason, subject, thing). (various references)

Romansch

chaschunar (to cause). (various references)

Russian 

сторона (aspect, behalf, flank, litigant, part, party, side, sides), вызывать причина;процесс;дело, основание (account, base, bases, basis, bed, bedding, bottom, establishment, evidence, foot, foundation, ground, grounding, pedestal, radices, radix, raison, reason, sole, subbase, substratum, substructure, underlay), заставлять (coerce, compel, force, get, induce, lead, make, oblige, screw, will), быть причиной (bring about), причинять (do, give, inflict), причина (ground, reason, reason for, root, score, subject, wherefores), повод (bridle, bridle-rein, halter, matter, motive, occasion, rein), довод (argument, plea), дело (act, affair, affairs, business, business deal, case, deal, deed, doing, dossier, engagement, file, matter, part, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction, work). (various references)

Scottish

cùis (affair, business, business deal, case, cause : cùis-eagail, matter, subject), tionndaidh (turn by altering position), reusan (a reason, reason), meudaich (enlarge, extend, multiply), aobhar (reason, subject matter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadati (assign, give, inflict, land), uzrok, usloviti (condition, qualify), stvar (affair, article, case, matter, object, shebang, subject, thing), rezon (reason), razlog (excuse, motive, reason, why), prouzrokovati (bring about, gender, give rise to, make, trigger off), pričiniti (seem), povod (inducement, motive, reason, room), izazvati (arouse, bring about, call up, challenge, create, educe, engender, generate, induce, originate, produce, prompt, tempt, touch off, trigger, trigger off). (various references)

Spanish

causa (case, ground, parent, reason, the cause, why), ocasionar (activate, bring about, cause to take place, endanger, entail, give, give rise to, induce, involve, jeopard, jeopardize, occasion, produce, throw up), causar (activate, beget, bring, bring about, bring on, develop, draw, entail, give, give rise to, hole, inflict, occasion, precipitate, produce, put, raise, start, touch off), producir (activate, afford, bear, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring in, carry, develop, father, generate, give, give rise to, induce, knock out, lead, originate, pay, produce, put out, raise, result in, return, throw back, to produce, turn out, work, yield), maquinar (activate, conspire, give rise to, initiate, machinate, plot, start), instigar (abet, activate, excite, give rise to, incite, initiate, instigate, provoke, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up), dar lugar a (admit of, cause to take place, originate). (various references)

Swedish

orsak (account, ground, matter, occasion, reason, score, seat, wherefores), upphov (beginning, fountainhead, germ, lineage, origin, root, source), orsaka (activate, give rise to, stall), grund (bank, basic, basis, behalf, bottom, cay, footing, foundation, ground, root, shallow, shoal, soil, superficial), förorsaka (activate, encompass, engineer, give rise to, induce, occasion, wreak). (various references)

Tagalog

dahilán (account, reason). (various references)

Thai

เหตุผลที่ดี, สาเหตุ (occasion), ทำให้เกิด, หัวเรื่องของการอภิปราย. (various references)

Turkish

yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, call forth, cut, entail, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), sorun (case, difficulty, funeral, grievance, hangup, hurdle, ill, issue, knot, look out, packet, problem, proposition, question, trouble), sebep olmak (induce, inspire, provoke), sebep (account, causation, consideration, ground, inducement, occasion, reason, subject, why), problem (funeral, problem, question, rub, trouble), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), neden (case, causatively, forwhy, ground, inducement, motive, occasion, point, reason, rise, room, seeds, what for, whence, wherefore, wherefrom, why), meydan vermek (admit, admit of, allow of, let), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), haklı neden (justification, warrant, warranty), gaye (aim, consummation, ideal, intent, intention, object, purpose), doğurmak (bear, breed, engender, farrow, fawn, foal, freshen, generate, give birth, have a baby, procreate, pup), dava konusu (subject matter), dava (action, case, claim, instance, law, lawsuit, litigation, plea, pleading, process, prosecution, suit, trial), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will). (various references)

Turkmen 

sypalga (reason), sebдp (reason), iсirdi. (various references)

Ukrainian

змушувати, примушувати (bring, coerce, compel, concuss, constrain, enforce, force, oblige, squeeze, urge, will), привід (alibi, cloak, grievance, handle, occasion, pretence, pretense, pretext, salvo, subject), причина (account, bottom, breeder, occasion, reason, score), процес (act, operation, process), підстава (account, base, basis, ground, occasion, reason, warranty), діло (act, affair, deed, employ, engagement, work), завдавати (deal, inflict, procure), судова справа (case, proceedings), мотив (animus, motive, oestrus, sanction, tune), викликати (arouse, bring forth, bring on, call, call in, challenge, champion, cite, create, defy, evoke, necessitate, procure, provoke, send for, send up, set smb. agog, stir up, strike, summon, touch off, wake, warn, whistle up), хвороба (affection, affliction, ail, ailment, disease, disorder, illness, malady, sick, sickness), спонукати (abet, actuate, excite, impel, impulse, induce, motivate, motive, prick, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur, urge), спричиняти (bring to pass, entail, generate, induce, necessitate, occasion, promote, work), справа (act, affair, biz, brief, business, case, deed, discipline, employ, enterprise, nevermind, point, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction), бути причиною (bring on, occasion, produce). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chính nghĩa vì theo phe ai, căn nguyên lẽ, cớ (matter, motive, pretext, wherefore), việc tố tụng mục tiêu, về bè với ai, nguyên nhân (account, matter, mother), nguyên do (rise, risen), mục đích sự nghiệp, lý do (consideration, motive, peg, pretext, reason, wherefore), đại nghĩa. (various references)

Welsh

achosi (reason). (various references)

2. se. (various references)

a, ab, abs, absque, addo, adfecerunt, adfectu, adfer, adferam, adferamus, adferant, adferatis, adferatur, adferebamus, adferebant, adferebat, adferebatur, adferens, adferent, adferentem, adferentes, adferentur, adferet, adferque, adferre, adferremus, adferrent, adferret, adferretur, adferri, adfers, adfert, adferte, adfertis, adfertur, adferunt, adficere, adficerent, adficiam, adficiant, adficiar, adficient, adficientes, adlata, adlatae, adlatam, adlatos, adlatum, adtulerant, adtulerat, adtuleritis, adtulerunt, adtuleruntque, adtuli, adtulimus, adtulisset, adtulit, affecti, affectu, affectum, aliunde, amorrei, amri, anab, causa, commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, conciliare, concilio, concinnabat, concinnanda, concinnandas, concinnat, concinnatis, concinnavit, concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, confla, conflabimini, conflabitur, conflabo, conflandum, conflans, conflasti, conflata, conflatae, conflator, conflatur, conflatus, conflaverunt, conflavit, confletur, effecta, effecti, effectum, effectus, efficeremur, effici, efficiamini, efficiamur, efficiar, efficiaris, efficiebatur, efficiemus, efficientur, efficiet, efficietur, efficimini, efficit, efficitur, eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, excita, excitabis, excitabit, excitabitur, excitabo, excitandi, excitandum, excitantibus, excitare, excitatas, excitate, excitatus, excitaverunt, excitavi, excitavit, excitet, excito, exhibeo exibeo, fac, facere, facerem, faceremus, facerent, faceres, faceret, faceretis, faceretque, faciam, faciamque, faciamus, faciant, faciantque, facias, faciat, faciatis, faciebant, faciebat, faciebatis, faciebatque, faciemus, facienda, faciendam, faciendas, faciendi, faciendo, faciendum, faciens, facient, faciente, facientem, facientes, facienti, facientia, facientibus, facientis, facientque, facies, faciesque, faciet, facietis, facietisque, facietque, facimus, facio, facis, facit, facite, facitis, facito, faciunt, facque, facta, factae, factaeque, factam, factaque, factas, facti, factique, factis, facto, factorum, factos, factum, factumque, factura, facturi, facturum, facturus, factus, factusque, feceram, feceramus, fecerant, feceras, fecerat, feceratis, fecere, fecerim, fecerimus, fecerint, feceris, fecerit, feceritis, feceritque, fecero, fecerunt, feceruntque, feci, fecimus, fecique, fecisse, fecissem, fecissent, fecisset, fecisti, fecistis, fecit, fecitque, hinc, inde, indo (past indidi), infero, inferre, inportant, inportavi, iturei, oblata, oblati, oblatis, oblatos, oblatum, oblaturi, oblatus, obtulerant, obtulerat, obtulere, obtulerint, obtuleris, obtulerit, obtuleritis, obtulerunt, obtuleruntque, obtuli, obtulimus, obtulissent, obtulisset, obtulisti, obtulistis, obtulit, obtulitque, offer, offeram, offeramus, offerant, offerantur, offeras, offerat, offeratis, offeratur, offerebant, offerebantur, offerebat, offerebatur, offerenda, offerendas, offerendo, offerendum, offerens, offerent, offerentem, offerentes, offerenti, offerentibus, offerentium, offerentur, offeres, offeret, offeretis, offeretisque, offeretque, offeretur, offerimus, offero, offerre, offerrent, offerrentur, offerret, offerretur, offerri, offers, offert, offerte, offertis, offertur, offerunt, offeruntur, re, rei, rem, rena, rerum, res, rhei, sesa. (various references)

intinga. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cause": caused, causeless, causer, causerie, causeries, causers, causes, causeway, causewayed, causewaying, causeways, causey, causeys. (additional references)

Words ending with "cause": because, subcause. (additional references)

Words containing "cause": subcauses, uncaused. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cause" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acase, Acaus, acose, acouse, acquse, Acus, acuse, ause, Ausi, bause, bcause, Cabus, Caise, caissa, caisse, caius, Capuzzo, casee, caseu, casu, casup, casure, Caubet, Cauce, Cauden, caues, cauge, Cauley, caulse, caurs, caus, causa, causae, causeth, causic, Causier, causse, caust, cauti, cauve, cayus, celse, Ceuse, chauce, chaude, Chausen, chausse, Cibse, ciese, Coosje, cose, couse, cousel, Coussey, crause, Crauste, csuse, cuasee, cusa, cuse, cuso, cuze, dause, Eauze, fause, Fauske, hausse, Kaese, Kasule, kause, Kausel, Kausu, Keussen, sause, Sauze, Shause, suase. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sauce.

-1 letter: aces, case, cues, ecus.

-2 letters: ace, cue, eau, ecu, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, sue, use.

-3 letters: ae, as, es, us.

+1 letter: accuse, acutes, casque, caules, caused, causer, causes, causey, cayuse, cesura, clause, cuesta, fauces, muscae, sacque, sauced, saucer, sauces, uncase, usance.

+2 letters: abduces, accrues, accused, accuser, accuses, acerous, acetous, acquest, aculeus, acumens, acutest, adduces, almuces, apercus, arcuses, auspice, bascule, because, caesium, caestus, caesura, caiques, calques, cangues, capsule, carouse, caseous, casqued, casques, caudles, causers, causeys, cayuses, cedulas, censual, cesurae, cesuras, claques, clauses, coteaus, crusade, cubages, cuestas, curares, curates, cuspate, escuage, euclase, eustacy, faucets, jaunces, lacunes, launces, macules, mucosae, nuances, nutcase, recusal, rubaces, saccule, sacques, saucers, saucier, scaleup, scauper, scutage, scutate, secular, specula, subrace, sucrase, sulcate, surface, teacups, uncages, uncakes, uncased, uncases, unlaces, upscale, usances, usaunce, waesuck.