Other forms: results, resulted, resulting
A result is what comes out at the end because of what was done. The score at the final whistle, the mark on your exam paper, the smell in the kitchen after you left the pan on.
In the plural, results are marks or scores: exam results, test results from the hospital, election results coming in through the night. Result is also a verb, and this is where learners slip — something results FROM a cause and results IN an effect. The rain resulted in floods; the floods resulted from the rain. As a result is the everyday way of saying because of that. In British sport, a result on its own means a win: the manager just needed a result.
1nounresultWhat comes out at the end of something, caused by what happened before.~67%
“The result of the vote was clear by midnight.”
synonyms: outcome, consequence
2nounmarkA mark, score or measurement produced by an exam, a test or a match.~9%
“Her exam results came through by email on Thursday.”
3verbcauseTo happen because of something, or to cause something to happen.~24%
“The strike resulted in three days without buses.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: outcome
Latin resulto meant to spring forward or rebound, built on resilio, to rebound — re-, back, plus salio, to jump or leap. A result was once a leap backwards: you push the world and something bounces back at you. Middle English took it as resulten, and the noun followed the verb.
Proto-Indo-European
*sel-
Medieval Latin
resulto
Middle English
resulten
English, today
result
Built from
Recorded since 1432 as Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resulto, in Classical Latin - "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio (“to rebound”), from re- (“back”) + salio (“to jump, leap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA