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Result   /rɪzˈəlt/  /rizˈəlt/   Listen
noun
Result  n.  
1.
A flying back; resilience. (Obs.) "Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string."
2.
That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation. "If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result."
3.
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree. "Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet's regal sound the great result."
Synonyms: Effect; consequence; conclusion; inference; issue; event. See Effect.


verb
Result  v. i.  (past & past part. resulted; pres. part. resulting)  
1.
To leap back; to rebound. (Obs.) "The huge round stone, resulting with a bound."
2.
To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
3.
To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor. "Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life."
Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc.
Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it.
Synonyms: To proceed; spring; rise; arise; ensue; terminate.





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"Result" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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