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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



... on America. The result of the general assembly is expected in four or five days. If one may believe the papers, which one should not believe, the other side of the waterists are not doux comme des moutons, and yet we do intend to ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... organizations, than if a member of them. The opinions avowed throughout this volume, and wherever expressed, will, then, be found, whether consonant with the reader's or no, in all cases honestly and heartily her own,—the result of her own thought and faith. She never speaks, never did speak, for any clique or sect, but as her individual judgment, her reason and conscience, her observation and ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... well enough, Major, to know what followed. Befo' the words were out of his mouth he was flat on his back and I standin' over him with my cane. Then his clerks rushed in and separated us. My present situation is the result." ...
— Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman • F. Hopkinson Smith
... of myself? I do not think so. I have been hammering letters ever since, and got three ready and a fourth about half through; all four will go by the mail, which is what I wish, for so I keep at least my start. Days and days of unprofitable stubbing and digging, and the result still poor as literature, left-handed, heavy, unillumined, but I believe readable and interesting as matter. It has been no joke of a hard time, and when my task was done, I had little taste for anything but blowing ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... was almost heart-broken, when he learned the result of our pursuit; and nothing that we could say, afforded him any comfort. His continual cry was, "Give me my daughter! ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens


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