What is the difference between result and hence?
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To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
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, 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.
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, 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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, 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:
(archaic) from here, from this place, away
* c.1599-1601 , , Act 4, Scene 1,
* 1849 , ,
(archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
(archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
(conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
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* 1731 May 27, ,
(temporal location) from this time, from now
(obsolete) To send away.
In obsolete terms the difference between result and hence
is that result is a flying back; resilience while hence is to send away.As verbs the difference between result and hence
is that result is to proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor while hence is to send away.As a noun 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.As an adverb hence is
from here, from this place, away.result
English
Verb
(en verb) (intransitive)- Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.
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- 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 !
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* 1000 English basic wordshence
English
Adverb
(-)- I'm going hence , because you have insulted me.
- Get thee hence , Satan!
- O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence :
- Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence , nor returning hither again?
- ''After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence .
- ''A year hence it will be forgotten.
- ''I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
- ''The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
- Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
- Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
- That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
- ''The plane will leave two months hence .
Synonyms
* consequentlyDerived terms
* henceforth * henceforwardVerb
(henc)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
