What's the difference between result and upshot?

Result


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap back; to rebound.
  • (v. i.) To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
  • (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
  • (n.) A flying back; resilience.
  • (n.) 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, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
  • (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
  • (2) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (3) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (4) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
  • (5) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (7) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (8) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (9) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (10) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (11) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (12) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (13) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (14) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
  • (15) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
  • (16) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (17) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (18) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (19) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
  • (20) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.

Upshot


Definition:

  • (n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One upshot of this alliance is a weekly, free HIV testing and support service for sex workers in the Westminster area.
  • (2) The upshot of that is that the government's finances did the splits: the tax take collapsed just as welfare spending shot upwards.
  • (3) Perhaps the principal upshot of this was what would become known as the "impasse" in development studies.
  • (4) 39 min: After a 22-man debate about the rights and wrongs of the red card, hot heat particularly emanating from Puyol, the upshot of it all is that Barcelona have a free-kick just outside the Chelsea area.
  • (5) The New York Times Upshot model gives Democrats a 57% chance of winning the Senate, and may even seriously erode the Republican party’s tighter grip on the House of Representatives.
  • (6) A debt-to-GDP ratio in excess of 200% is the upshot of more than two decades of sluggish growth and repeated attempts to pump-prime the economy.
  • (7) The upshot of all this is simple, but so at odds with Westminster groupthink that it feels almost funny.
  • (8) The upshot is that fans will get a full day's action to watch in Paris .
  • (9) The upshot is that the Bank of Japan still has plenty of work to do to boost price pressures.” The Nikkei benchmark index opened sharply higher on Monday, gaining more than 3% off the back of gains on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday, as well as encouraging US retail sales figures.
  • (10) That’s what appears to be the upshot of the Gawker v Hulk Hogan trial so far.
  • (11) The upshot is that it's hard to compare this year's result to previous years.
  • (12) She depicts an exquisitely awkward meeting during which the dads had to be set to DIY, otherwise they would all have just sat around wondering whether or not to talk about cancer – the upshot of which was that they assembled her an exercise bike, which sits pristine in the corner of the room.
  • (13) But the upshot was that the elders allegedly said, 'Go back to Ann Cryer and tell her it's nothing to do with us.
  • (14) The upshot was that she had to go through a very challenging and upsetting complaints procedure over many, many months, even though the outcome was sanction of the old male academic in question.
  • (15) I've just spent half an hour on the phone to various Labour party people, and here is the not-exactly-revelatory upshot: " bigotgate " – if you want to call it that – is beyond grim.
  • (16) The upshot is that we would not necessarily expect a sustained rise in Treasury yields even if the Fed, perhaps mindful of the implications for its balance sheet and eventual exit strategy, does scale back its purchases later in the year.
  • (17) One upshot, some would argue, is that he fits bill of a classic lone wolf – a profile that had been much feared by security officials.
  • (18) The upshot, after a second meeting the following year, was an experiment: could they get to know each other by number-crunching their lives, one topic per week, with only a handful of coloured pens to bring their data to life?
  • (19) This is something that we can go out and make a real impact by casting a vote directly for the issue.’ I think the voters get that.” The upshot of the 2014 midterms: minimum wage is an issue that draws voters even without the multimillion-dollar campaigns devoted to other issues, like labelling genetically modified foods .
  • (20) While it may be the only standalone data journalism website, it’s competing with sections in numerous other newspapers: The Upshot, in the New York Times; Wonkblog in the Washington Post; and the Guardian’s own data blog (now five years old) to name just a handful.