• IPA: /ɹɪˈzʌlt/

result (results, present participle resulting; past and past participle resulted) (intransitive)

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

   • Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.

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

   This measure will result in good or in evil.

3. (legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
4. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
   • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book XI”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗:

     the huge round stone, resulting with a bound

• (to proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence) follow, arise

• resultant
• resile
• resilient
• resilience

• French: résulter, causer
• Russian: проистека́ть
• Spanish: resultar

• Russian: приводи́ть

result (plural results)

1. 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.

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

2. The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
3. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result.

4. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

5. (sports) The final score in a game.
6. (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.

• French: résultat
• German: Ergebnis, Resultat
• Italian: risultato
• Portuguese: resultado
• Russian: результа́т
• Spanish: resultado

• Portuguese: resultado
• Russian: результа́т

1. (UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.
   • 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!