Insult vs Result - What's the difference?
insult | result |
(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
*, II.3.3:
To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
* Savage
* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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:
In obsolete terms the difference between insult and result
is that insult is the act of leaping on; onset; attack while result is a flying back; resilience.As verbs the difference between insult and result
is that insult is to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against) while result is to proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.As nouns the difference between insult and result
is that insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude while result is 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.As an interjection result is
an exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.insult
English
Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (deliberatedly intended to be rude) abuse (uncountable), affront, offence (UK)/offense (US), pejorative, slam, slight, slur * (thing causing offence by being of unacceptable quality) disgrace, outrage * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentAnagrams
* * English heteronymsresult
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 !
