Definitions for result

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result re·sult

Spelling: [ri-zuhlt]

IPA: /rɪˈzʌlt/

Result is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in result (elrstu).

Definitions for result

noun

1. something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
2. Mathematics. a quantity, expression, etc., obtained by calculation.
3. Often, results. a desirable or beneficial consequence, outcome, or effect:

Idioms

1. get results, to obtain a notable or successful result or response; be effective.

verb (used without object)

1. to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
2. to terminate or end in a specified manner or thing.

Origin of result

1375-1425; late Middle English resulten (v.) Anglo-Latin resultāre to arise as a consequence, Latin: to spring back, rebound, equivalent to re- re- + -sultāre, combinin

Examples for result

Men and women who become infertile as a result of chemotherapy could also regain their reproductive capabilities.

But the result was achieved only at a cost which the little party could ill sustain.

The rebels though seemed somewhat chastened by the result despite more than doubling the anti-Boehner votes from two years ago.

Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.

As one result of this, our Navy ranks larger, in comparison, than it ever did before.

As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.

This is a record and result that no careful student of our history will, I take it, deny.

As a result the grain in the Egyptian markets had greatly increased in value.

It is not the name of the action, but the result of the action, which is the chief concern.

The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.