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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#m1)

2) A result is what happens because of something else: «as a result of the rain, the game stopped». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#m2)

3) Results are the scores or marks of a test, game or race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#m3)

4) To result in something is to cause it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x1)
- Write the result in the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x2)
- Multiply the result by 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x3)
- The result is 5 less than 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x4)
- Write the results of your experiment in a table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x5)
- As a result of the snow, school was closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x6)
- The match result was 2–1 to our team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x7)
- Too much sugar can result in bad teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x8)
- We are waiting for the exam results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x9)
- The result is that she becomes petrified herself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/4/)
- [A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/)
- [Safe search is a setting that filters out adult results when you search, though it can miss some.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/16/)
- [Teachers and other workers use AI tools to save time, and they need to check the results.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/13/)
- [«Affect» is usually a verb (to change something); «effect» is usually a noun (the result).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «result» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/result/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.