Result vs. Answer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Result and Answer
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Result
A result (also called upshot) is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events expressed qualitatively or quantitatively. Possible results include advantage, disadvantage, gain, injury, loss, value and victory.
Answer
A thing that is said, written, or done as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation
He knocked and entered without waiting for an answer
I hurried along the passage in answer to the doorbell's ring
Result
To happen as a consequence
Damage that resulted from the storm.
Charges that resulted from the investigation.
Answer
A solution to a problem or dilemma
The answer to poverty and unemployment is a properly funded range of services
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To end in a particular way
Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.
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Answer
A person or thing regarded as the equivalent to a better-known one from another place
The press called her Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe
Result
Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
Answer
Say or write something as a reaction to someone or something
‘Of course I can,’ she answered
Steve was about to answer, but Hazel spoke first
She tried to answer his questions truthfully
She answered that she would take nothing but the ring
Result
Results Favorable or desired outcomes
A new approach that got results.
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Act in reaction to (a sound such as a telephone ringing or a knock or ring on a door)
She rang Edward's house, hoping the housekeeper would answer
Digby answered the door
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(Mathematics) The quantity or expression obtained by calculation.
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Be responsible or report to (someone)
I answer to the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations
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To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
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Defend oneself against (a charge, accusation, or criticism)
He said he would return to Spain to answer all charges
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To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
This measure will result in good or in evil.
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Be suitable for fulfilling (a need); satisfy
Entrepreneurship is necessary to answer the needs of national and international markets
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(legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
Answer
A series of words spoken, written, or signed in reaction to a question, request, or other prompt; a reply
I wrote weeks ago but never got an answer.
Result
(obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
Answer
An act that serves as a reply or response
Our only possible answer was to sue. Their answer was to ignore me.
Result
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.
The result of a course of action;
The result of a mathematical operation
Answer
A solution or result, as to a problem
We all got the right answer to that problem.
Result
The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
Answer
The correct solution or response
The teacher read the answers to the quiz aloud.
Result
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
Answer
Something markedly similar to another of the same class
Cable TV's answer to the broadcast networks' sportscasts.
Result
(obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
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(Law) A defendant's response to the allegations that have been made against them.
Result
(sports) The final score in a game.
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To speak, write, or sign as a reaction to a question or other prompt
He couldn't take the call but answered with a text message.
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(by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
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To act in reaction or as a response
Their team scored, but our team answered with a quick goal.
Result
(UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.
Answer
To be liable or accountable
You must answer for your actions to your supervisor.
Result
To leap back; to rebound.
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound.
Answer
To serve the purpose; suffice
“Often I do use three words where one would answer” (Mark Twain).
Result
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.
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To match; correspond
I found a dog answering to that description.
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To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.
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To produce an answer to
She answered the email.
Result
A flying back; resilience.
Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.
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To state in reply
He answered that he was unable to join us.
Result
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.
If our proposals once again were heard,We should compel them to a quick result.
Answer
To respond correctly to
I can't answer the question.
Result
The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
Then of their session ended they bid cryWith trumpet's regal sound the great result.
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To act in response to
The police answered the call for help. The soldiers answered the attack.
Result
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event
Answer
To argue in defense of oneself against (an accusation or charge).
Result
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
Answer
To be sufficient for (a need, for instance); fulfill
“My fortune has answered my desires” (Izaak Walton).
Result
Something that results;
He listened for the results on the radio
Answer
To match or correspond to
The suspect answers the description given by the police.
Result
The semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
Answer
A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
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Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end;
Result in tragedy
Answer
A solution to a problem.
There is no simple answer to corruption.
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Result in;
The water left a mark on the silk dress
Her blood left a stain on the napkin
Answer
(legal) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
Answer
(ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
He answered the question.
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(transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
To answer a charge or accusation
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(ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
She answered the door.
Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
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(ambitransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
It answers the need.
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To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.
He has a lot to answer for.
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(legal) To file a document in response to a complaint.
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To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
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To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
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To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
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To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
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To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
He answered my claim upon him.
The servant answered the bell.
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(obsolete) To render account to or for.
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(obsolete) To atone for; to be punished for.
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(obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
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To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
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To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
She answers him as if she knew his mind.
So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
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To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
No man was able to answer him a word.
These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
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To be or act in return or response to.
This proud king . . . studies day and nightTo answer all the debts he owes unto you.
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To render account to or for.
I will . . . send him to answer thee.
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To atone; to be punished for.
And grievously hath Cæzar answered it.
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To be opposite to; to face.
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them.
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To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
Money answereth all things.
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To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
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To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
There was no voice, nor any that answered.
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To make a satisfactory response or return.
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
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To be or act in return.
Do the strings answer to thy noble hand?
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To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
If this but answer to my just belief,I 'll remember you.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
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A reply to a charge; a defense.
At my first answer no man stood with me.
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Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
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Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Great the slaughter isHere made by the Roman; great the answer beBritons must take.
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A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
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A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
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A statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation;
I waited several days for his answer
He wrote replies to several of his critics
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A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
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The speech act of replying to a question
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The principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
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A nonverbal reaction;
His answer to any problem was to get drunk
Their answer was to sue me
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Reply or respond to;
She didn't want to answer
Answer the question
We answered that we would accept the invitation
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Give the correct answer or solution to;
Answer a question
Answer the riddle
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Respond to a signal;
Answer the door
Answer the telephone
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Understand the meaning of;
The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered
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Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument);
The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution
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Be liable or accountable;
She must answer for her actions
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Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity;
A few words would answer
This car suits my purpose well
Will $100 do?
A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school
Nothing else will serve
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Match or correspond;
The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave
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Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of;
This may answer her needs
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React to a stimulus or command;
The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch
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