result

«result» in Mova's school dictionary: what you get at the end, like the answer of a sum — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (result, results); verb (result, results, resulted, resulting)

meaning for a pupil

1) A result is what you get at the end, like the answer of a sum. tree →

2) A result is what happens because of something else: «as a result of the rain, the game stopped». tree →

3) Results are the scores or marks of a test, game or race. tree →

4) To result in something is to cause it. tree →

sense in the lessons

the answer of an operation: the result of adding, taking away, multiplying; in science: the result of an experiment is what you find out, written in a table; in sport: the final score; in everyday life: «as a result», «the results are in»; it tells the reader what came after a cause

examples

• The result of 6 + 7 is 13. tree →
• Write the result in the box. tree →
• Multiply the result by 2. tree →
• The result is 5 less than 20. tree →
• Write the results of your experiment in a table. tree →
• As a result of the snow, school was closed. tree →
• The match result was 2–1 to our team. tree →
• Too much sugar can result in bad teeth. tree →
• We are waiting for the exam results. tree →
• The result is that she becomes petrified herself. tree →

note

Names the outcome of a step; in chains, «the result» is the number from the step before. Names by operation: sum (add), difference (take away), product (multiply), quotient (divide). In science, a result is what was seen, not what was guessed.

In the corpora

• Waiting is a big part of hospitals: waiting to be seen, waiting for results, waiting for visiting hours.
• A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.
• Safe search is a setting that filters out adult results when you search, though it can miss some.
• Teachers and other workers use AI tools to save time, and they need to check the results.
• «Affect» is usually a verb (to change something); «effect» is usually a noun (the result).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «result» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.