Meaning of result | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
3. To occur as a consequence:attend, ensue, follow.
4. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
5. To be the cause of:bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, secure, set off, stir (up), touch off, trigger.
6. A flying back; resilience.
   obsolete
7. resultado, conclusión.
8. The final score in a game.
9. To happen as a consequence: damage that resulted from the storm; charges that resulted from the investigation. See Synonyms at follow.
10. A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
    broadly
11. To end in a particular way: Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.
12. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome. See Synonyms at effect.
13. Mathematics The quantity or expression obtained by calculation.
    Mathematics
14. something that ensues from an action, policy, course of events, etc; outcome; consequence
15. (Mathematics) a number, quantity, or value obtained by solving a mathematical problem
16. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a decision of a legislative body
    US

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Examples

“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.”

“Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result.”

“Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.”

“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. […]””

“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.”

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