Happened vs Resulted - What's the difference?
happened | resulted |
(result)
To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
* Tillotson
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in .
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, title= (legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
(obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
* Alexander Pope
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.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) A flying back; resilience.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) The final score in a game.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results' over the wireless. And ' results are all that concern me. […]”}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=David Ornstein, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC Sport (label) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
(UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.
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* 2010 April 10, Amy Pond, in The Beast Below (series 5, episode 2), written by Steven Moffat:
As verbs the difference between happened and resulted
is that happened is (happen) while resulted is (result).resulted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*result
English
Verb
(en verb) (intransitive)- Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.
Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=United's hopes of mounting a serious response suffered a blow within two minutes of the restart when Evans, who had endured a miserable afternoon, lost concentration and allowed Balotelli to steal in behind him. The defender's only reaction was to haul the Italian down, resulting in an inevitable red card.}}
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
- the huge round stone, resulting with a bound
Synonyms
* follow, ariseNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result . If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
- Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result .
- Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.
George Goodchild
citation, passage=The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.}}
Derived terms
* as a result * resultful * resultlessInterjection
(en interjection)- (picking a lock) I wonder what I did...
- (the lock opens) Hey hey, result !