Thesaurus: result

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1. v. i. To leap back; to rebound.
2. v. i. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
3. v. i. To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
4. n. A flying back; resilience.
5. n. 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; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
6. n. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
7. n. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
8. n. a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
9. n. something that results
10. n. the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
11. v. issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
12. v. produce as a result or residue