result
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: results
Etymology: Recorded since 1432 as Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultare, in Classical Latin "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio (“to rebound”), from re- (“back”) + salio (“to jump, leap”).
Senses: examples: text: the result of a course of action;  the result of a mathematical operation
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
examples: text: Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
examples: text: Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: A flying back; resilience.
examples: text: It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final score in a game.
glosses: A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
Hyponyms: sense: that which results
word: primitive
sense: that which results
word: sum
sense: that which results
word: difference
topics: mathematics
sciences
sense: that which results
word: product
Derived terms: as a result
as a result of
end result
no result
null result
resultative
resultful
resultfulness
resultless
resultlessness
result noun
result-oriented
result type