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Result   /rɪzˈəlt/  /rizˈəlt/   Listen
Result

noun
1.
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.  Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot.  "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"
2.
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem.  Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent.  "The answers were in the back of the book" , "He computed the result to four decimal places"
3.
Something that results.  Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination.
4.
The semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause.  Synonym: resultant role.
verb
(past & past part. resulted; pres. part. resulting)
1.
Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end.  Synonym: ensue.
2.
Have as a result or residue.  Synonyms: lead, leave.  "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
3.
Come about or follow as a consequence.



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... Harris, who up to that moment had not reflected that his hasty action in dismissing Travers would result in much more delay than anything else that had occurred. "Well, we'll have to get somebody else. We'll manage till noon, and then you better ride over to Grant's or Mormon's. They'll be able to lend a man or one of the boys for a day or two." It was significant ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead

... him and his arms were unbound. But the effect of the shock was too much for his mind; he fell down in a swoon, and when he recovered, his senses had left him, and I heard that he never recovered them, but was sent home to be confined as a maniac. I thought, and the result proved, that it was carried too far. It is not the custom, when a man is reprieved, to tell him so, until after he is on the scaffold, with the intention that his awful situation at the time may ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat

... seventeen, whose extravagances in speech, manner and dress caused deep dismay among the more serious members of the community. In particular the learned Dr. SHADWELL denounced them with great severity in a leading review, but with little result. They bedizened themselves with frippery, shrieked like parrots on all occasions and interpreted the motto of the time, "Carry On," in a sense deplorably remote from ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov 21, 1917 • Various

... But Jerkline Jo and her rough-and-ready skinners, the latter all old fighters of the camps and used to unseemly sights, and the sickening sound of a big fist landing on giving bone, only watched and waited for the result. ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

... himself to do. Worse still, he required the cession of Savoy and Nice to France, if the Central Duchies and the northern part of the Papal States joined the Kingdom of Sardinia, as they now did. Thus, the net result of Napoleon's intervention in Italy was his acquisition of Savoy and Nice (at the price of Italian hatred), and the gain of Lombardy and the central districts for the ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose


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