Word Finder - result

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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.

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

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The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.

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The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

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A flying back; resilience.

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The final score in a game.

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(by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.

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

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(followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about

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This measure will result in good or in evil.

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To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.

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To leap back; to rebound.

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An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

We do know as a result of earlier tests EA, as we call it, is also part of the lure.

I did not know at first but it was the result of a wise policy.

There, good citizens, is the result of a wasted day in the mountains.

It was difficult to start a subject that might result in a fight, but she had to know for sure — slay the dragon, so to speak.

One that would result in her capturing Gabriel's heart and keeping her own soul.

It is easy to verify this result.

Annie's death was a direct result of him and his actions.

Her temper was shorter, the result of not sleeping and the pain of her arm.

She wondered if Hannah knew yet about the Immortals and how Katie.s tattoo hadn.t been the result of a fling in Ireland as she led her sister to believe.

Their kiss was electrifying – the result of a tantalizing evening in each other's arms, no doubt.

She felt very alone as she realized his plotting was not the result of a few months of planning but the maneuvers of a calculating, patient man.

The battle of Borodino was not fought on a chosen and entrenched position with forces only slightly weaker than those of the enemy, but, as a result of the loss of the Shevardino Redoubt, the Russians fought the battle of Borodino on an open and almost unentrenched position, with forces only half as numerous as the French; that is to say, under conditions in which it was not merely unthinkable to fight for ten hours and secure an indecisive result, but unthinkable to keep an army even from complete disintegration and flight.

Deidre suspected the result of provoking either man was death to someone.

Every once in awhile, he absorbed too much, and the result threw him on his back.

Perhaps it was the result of long association with the blind.

As a result of this the unconsidered tune, like the song of a bird, was extraordinarily good.

One can imagine what confusion and obscurity would result from such an account of the duel.

Only Quinn seemed pleased with that result but when we tried to question him about it he refused to discuss the matter.

The result of a deity breaking one of the three is basically the destruction of the world.

Just then the third round of drinks arrived, apparently as a result of a nod to the waiter by Cynthia Byrne.

Sure, his experience was the result of years in the Arizona mountains, but let him try to find his way around Los Angeles.

It fell, and I had nothing to do with it, but I'll be Machiavellian about it and simply appreciate the end result, Eden said and then paused.

Nevertheless, the result was not all evil.

A war which became general, as any limited action might, would only result in the virtual destruction of mankind.

This was a result of the belief, that whoever knew the names of these rulers would after death pass through all the heavens to the supreme God.

But with this result 'some of Huss's followers, who wished to preserve his spiritual teaching, were not content.

The result of this decision was that the synagogue at Caesarea was insulted on a Sabbath and the Jews left the city taking their books of the Law with them.

The result was civil war and famine.

The schools were reorganized in 1917 as a result of a " survey."

When the fungus is grown elsewhere than in the ants' nest it produces gonidia instead of the white masses on which the ants feed, hence it seems that these masses are indeed produced as the result of some unknown cultural process.

The Melanochroi are not considered by Huxley to be one of the primitive modifications of mankind, but rather to be the result of the admixture of the Xanthochroi with the Australoid type, next to be mentioned.

The result was a whole series of wars with the Teutonic Order, which now acknowledged Swidrygiello, another brother of Jagiello, as grand-duke of Lithuania; and though Swidrygiello was defeated and driven out by Witowt, the Order retained possession of Samogitia, and their barbarous methods of "converting" the wretched inhabitants finally induced Witowt to rescue his fellow-countrymen at any cost from the tender mercies of the knights.

Miss Sullivan's methods were so good that even without the practical result, any one would recognize the truth of the teacher's ideas.

They slander him as a traitor, and the only result will be that afterwards, ashamed of their false accusations, they will make him out a hero or a genius instead of a traitor, and that will be still more unjust.

The North Carolina State Hospital (for the insane) at Raleigh was opened in 1856 as a result of the labours of Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix (1805-1887); in connexion with it there is an epileptic colony.

It developed into a title implying jurisdiction over metropolitans, partly as a result of the organization of the empire into " dioceses," partly owing to the ambition of the greater metropolitan bishops, which had early led them to claim and exercise authority in neighbouring metropolitanates.

The final result of this latest determination is to place the Madras observatory 2' 27" to the west of the position adopted for it on the strength of absolute astronomical determinations.

The depression westward of the Caspian and Aral basins, and the original connexion of these seas, have also come under the close investigation of Russian scientists, with the result that the theory of an ancient connexion between the Oxus and the Caspian has been displaced by the more recent hypothesis of an extension of the Caspian Sea eastwards into Trans-Caspian territory within the postPleiocene age.

The result of trans-border surveys to the north and west of India has been to establish the important geographical fact that it is by two gateways only, one on the north-west and one on the west of India, that the central Asiatic tides of immigration have flowed into the peninsula.

But this originality cannot be absolute, for, whatever may have been the relations of Babylonia and the Aryans, the latter brought civilization to India from the west, and it is not always clear whether similarity of government and institutions is the result of borrowing or of parallel development.

This sudden development of the Japanese is perhaps the most important event of the second half of the 19th century, since it marks the rise of an Asiatic power capable of competing with Europe on equal terms. Their history is so different from that of the rest of Asia that it is not surprising if the result is different.

The immediate result was small, but the establishment of Perso-Greek kingdoms in central Asia had a powerful influence on Indian art and culture.

Though the Turks have profoundly affected the whole of eastern Europe, the result of their conquests has been not so much to plant Asiatic culture in Europe as to arrest development entirely, the countries under their rule remaining in much the same condition as under the moribund Byzantine empire.

In 1780 and 1781 he took an active part in opposition to Lord North's American policy, and it was largely as the result of his motion on the 22nd of February in the latter year, demanding the cessation of the war against the colonies, when the ministerial majority was reduced to one, that Lord North resigned office.

At the peace of Westphalia they claimed the duchy, in opposition to the elector of Brandenburg, and the result was that the latter was obliged to content himself with eastern Pomerania (Hinterpommern), and to see the western part (Vorpommern) awarded to Sweden.

Tricked into a liaison with the Fisher King's daughter Elaine, he becomes the father of Galahad, the Grail winner, and, as a result of the queen's jealous anger at his relations with the lady, goes mad, and remains an exile from the court for some years.

Unfortunately, Dr Sommer, in his study on the Sources of Malory, omitted to consult these texts, with the result that the sections dealing with Lancelot and Queste urgently require revision.

The result is prompt, safe and painless.

This result shows that Cyrus must have been a great warrior and statesman.

But the inevitable opposition of the nobility to this policy was not mitigated by the fact that it was carried out by a churchman; the result was to embitter the antagonism of the secular party to the church and to concentrate it upon Wolsey's head.