outcome
English
Noun
(en noun )
Information, event, object or state of being produced as a result or consequence of a plan, process, accident, effort or other similar action or occurrence.
- A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers.
A positive result or consequence.
(probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
- Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die.
(education) The results or evidence of students’ learning experience. Often used in place of desired outcomes .
- The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 12
, author=
, title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain
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, passage=Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome .}}
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result
English
Verb
(en verb )
(intransitive)
To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
* Tillotson
- Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City
, passage=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.}}
To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in .
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm
, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist)
, passage=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.}}
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(legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
(obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
* Alexander Pope
- the huge round stone, resulting with a bound
Noun
(en 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.
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* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
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, passage=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 fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=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.}}
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet’s regal sound the great result .
(label) A flying back; resilience.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
- Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.
(label) The final score in a game.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=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. […]”}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=David Ornstein, title=Arsenal 3 – 0 Bolton
, work=BBC Sport citation
, passage=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.}}
(label) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
Derived terms
* as a result
* resultful
* resultless
Interjection
(en interjection )
(UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.
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* 2010 April 10, Amy Pond, in The Beast Below (series 5, episode 2), written by Steven Moffat:
- (picking a lock) I wonder what I did…
- (the lock opens) Hey hey, result !
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