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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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... hear of a new profession which has been called into existence as a result of the fierce competition of industrial and commercial life. It is the profession of "the business doctor," and already the idea has been justified. All is not well, perhaps, with some great firm; rivals are getting ahead; profits are declining, and "the business doctor" is called ...

— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson

... writers. But, in this process, points of importance might be omitted; and, in certain cases, words from letters of other dates appear to have been inserted by Mr. Froude, to clear up the situation. The result ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... is an aesthetic work, pure and simple. What it may have demolished or built up is a matter of absolute indifference to me. It came into being as the result of something which I had not observed, but experienced; it was a necessity for me to free myself from something which my inner man had done with, by giving poetic form to it; and, when by this means I had got rid of it, my book had no longer ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... recommended the consideration of the expediency of the House ordering that Miller should be taken into custody. The report, when read, was received with a roar of laughter. Nothing was done. Such was, to quote the words of Burke in the Annual Register (xiv. 70), 'the miserable result of all the pretended vigour of the Ministry.' See Parl. Hist. ...

— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell

... in spite of his endeavors to injure Fred, the latter was more of a favorite than himself. He supposed that he had accomplished something of his design before the party took place, but there he found that the result of his malicious endeavors practically extended only as far ...

— Under Fire - A Tale of New England Village Life • Frank A. Munsey

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