Result

/ɹɪˈzʌlt/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
2. (intransitive, followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
3. (intransitive, law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
5. 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.
6. The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
7. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
8. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.

Example Sentences

Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.

This measure will result in good or in evil.

United's hopes of mounting a serious response suffered a blow within two minutes of the restart when Evans, who had endured a miserable afternoon, lost concentration and allowed Balotelli to steal in behind him. The defender's only reaction was to haul the Italian down, resulting in an inevitable red card.

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

the huge round stone, resulting with a bound

the result of a course of action;  the result of a mathematical operation

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%.

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.

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