result
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
result/rɪˈzʌlt/
▶noun
- 1 a consequence, effect, or outcome.
■ (also results) a satisfactory outcome: persistence guarantees results.
- 2 an item of information or a quantity or formula obtained by experiment or calculation.
- 3 a final score, mark, or placing in a sporting event or examination.
- 4 (usu. results) the outcome of a business's trading over a given period, expressed as a statement of profit or loss.
■ (result in) have (a specified end or outcome).
– origin ME: from med. L. resultare ‘to result’, earlier ‘spring back’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + saltare (frequentative of salire ‘to jump’).
'result' also found in these Oxford entries:
abortive
- acalculia
- acoustic shock
- adaptationism
- -ade
- adjust
- adulterine
- affect
- -age
- agency
- agnosia
- alexia
- answer
- aphasia
- apportionment
- apraxia
- arise
- arrangement
- artefact
- associative
- -ation
- atrophy
- attend
- attendant
- automatic
- average
- backcross
- banker
- bed-blocking
- bedsore
- bias
- bleed
- bloodshot
- born
- break
- Brownian motion
- burn
- burst
- by-product
- cabbage
- capillarity
- carbon footprint
- carbon-neutral
- carding wool
- cauliflower ear
- closed
- collapse
- colour
- come
- commutative
