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/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

... narrow is the way of truth and how few there be that enter therein, and what prolonged concurrence of favouring hazards with gigantic endeavour is needed for each smallest step in the halting advancement of the race. With Turgot this was not the result of mere sentimental brooding. It had a deliberate and reasoned foundation in historical study. He was patient and not hastily sanguine as to the speedy coming of the millennial future, exactly because history had taught him to measure the laggard paces of the past. The secret of the ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... The horror of it, the uncanniness of it, thus stopping the human animal's course as one would stop an ill-regulated watch, had never appealed to him before. "Prejudice!" he cried aloud. His involuntary drawing back was but an unconscious result of the false training of centuries. As a doctor, familiar with death, cherishing no illusions about the value of the human body, he should not act like a nervous woman, and run away! How brutal he had been ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... we have gained in riches; instead of happy human souls, we have at least got pictures, china, horses, and are ourselves better off than we were before. But very often, and in much of our machine-contriving, even that result does not follow. We are not one whit the richer for the machine, we only employ it for our amusement. For observe, our gaining in riches depends on the men who are out of employment consenting to be starved, or sent out of the country. But suppose they do not consent passively to be starved, ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... an isolated organist (often at first a barrel-organist) or harmonium player; and despite certain advantages in point of control and accomplishment which were, no doubt, secured by installing the single artist, the change has tended to stultify the professed aims of the clergy, its direct result being to curtail and extinguish the interest of parishioners in church doings. Under the old plan, from half a dozen to ten full-grown players, in addition to the numerous more or less grown-up ...

— Under the Greenwood Tree • Thomas Hardy

... hers had been inconsistent and improbable. At any rate ropes and horses would not bring Lord Rufford to the hymeneal altar. That being so was it not natural that she should then have considered what result would be next best to a marriage? She was very poor, having saved only some few hundreds a year from the wreck of her own fortune. Independently of her daughter had nothing. And in spite of this poverty Arabella was very extravagant, running up bills for finery without remorse wherever credit ...

— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

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