0 the reason why something, especially something bad, happens: --
1 a socially valuable principle that is strongly supported by some people: --
I'll sponsor you for £10 - it's all in a good cause.
They are fighting for a cause - the liberation of their people.
2 to make something happen, especially something bad: --
3 because: --
4 something without which something else would not happen: --
5 an idea or principle strongly supported by some people: --
He devoted himself to charitable causes and gave away millions of dollars.
This effect causes target position to be misperceived when it is surrounded by a frame presented asymmetrically.
But the argument from selective refutation can be misleading when it causes us to fail to notice that the surviving hypothesis has its own defects.
Removing water from living tissues causes a series of dehydration stresses.
These stresses and antisocial behavior may, in turn, cause an increase in children's internalizing problems through the life course.
Another possible cause for the generally higher stresses in the present study is that the present mixing layer is in relatively early development.
The straightforward thing to say, in both cases, is that removing the life support caused the patient's death.
The excited atom interacts with the vacuum fluctuations which cause the spontaneous emission of radiation.
For instance, over-blowing on a wind instrument can cause an octave rise, which holds as the pressure is reduced.
