result
/ɹɪˈzʌlt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.18 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
Intransitive verb
noun
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.
noun
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
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"
Etymology
Recorded since 1432 as Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultare, in Classical Latin "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio (“to rebound”), from re- (“back”) + salio (“to jump, leap”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Obsolete
- British usage
Inflected Forms
results (present, singular)
resulting (participle, present)
resulted (participle, past)
resulted (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
resulted (first person, past)
resultest (archaic, present)
resulted (past, second person)
resultedst (archaic, past)
resulteth (archaic, present)
resulted (past, singular)