Outcome
['aʊtkʌm] or ['aʊt'kʌm]
Definition
(n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
Checker: Paulette
Definition
n. the issue: consequence: result.
Typed by Elinor
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
Checked by John
Examples
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Without waiting to note the outcome of his plea, he turned and bounded toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- While failure is sometimes the outcome of the water-finder’s attempts, success as often and, indeed, according to the testimony of Professor Barrett, more often crowns his efforts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To think upon the news as it comes to us is to attempt to see what is indicated as probable or possible regarding an outcome. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The outcome of the mixture is perhaps less satisfactory than if either principle were adhered to in its purity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There seemed something menacing in their attitude toward my beast, and I hesitated to leave until I had learned the outcome. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The outcome is that kind of check and balance of segregated factors and values which has been described. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is the logical and magnificent outcome of persistent thought and experiment in the direction of the electrical transmittal of speech. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The net outcome of the discussion is that the fundamental means of control is not personal but intellectual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I could not guess what his decision might be, and for hours I sat fretting over the outcome of the matter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Observation is an outcome, a consequence, of the interaction of sense organ and subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In view of the successful outcome of the problem which, in 1900, he undertook to solve, it will be interesting to review his mental attitude at that period. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They could not have done so if they had wished to, and if it had been possible general imbecility would have been the only outcome. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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