Outcome

Definition: Outcome

Outcome

Noun

1. Something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio".

2. 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".

Date "outcome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	OUTCOME, 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Statistics	The result of an experiment or other situation involving uncertainty. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Outcome

Synonyms: consequence (n), effect (n), event (n), issue (n), result (n), resultant (n), upshot (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquisition	Profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails; income; (receipt); proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output; return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit; (good).
Egress	Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Motive is less important than outcome. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; writing credit: Tania Rose)
Lyrics	Whatever the outcome is (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner)
Movie/TV Titles	Tax: The Outcome of Income (1975)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Complementary Cancer Therapies: Combining Traditional and Alternative Approaches for the Best Possible Outcome (reference) Heart Bypass: How to Prepare Your Mind, Your Emotions, and Yourself for a Successful Outcome (reference) Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs (reference) Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions (reference) Physical Rehabilitation Outcome Measures (Book with CD-ROM) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Outcome Measurement: Are You Making a Difference? (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Death Is the Outcome (reference) Outcome [IMPORT] (reference) The Final Outcome (In God's Hands) [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Outcome of two types of treatment for pneumonia in alcohol-treated animals. Credit: NIAA.
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Author	Quotation
Homer	The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
William James	It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Few studies have used language as an outcome measure. (references)
		Denning DW. Therapeutic outcome in invasive aspergillosis. (references)
		Several factors may affect the outcome of rabies exposure. (references)
Business		The direction of this reform will depend to a large extent on the outcome of the September federal elections. (references)
		As the final outcome of the project, waste disposal facilities in various parts of Turkey (around 6-7) will be proposed. (references)
		An outcome of the project is said to be the successful development of the YKA3132 six axis high-precision CNC gear-hobbling machine, which reaches world standards. (references)
Economic History	Barbados	Growth was led by an improved outcome in the traded sectors, particularly sugar and tourism. (references)
	Mexico	Litigation, as in the United States, is both lengthy and costly, and the outcome may be uncertain. (references)
	Japan	CS Tokyo is currently working with Japanese Government tax authorities to facilitate such an outcome. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	Judges determine the outcome of all trials; jury trials are rare. (references)
	Guyana	The number of appointments is to depend on the outcome of an audit of pending cases. (references)
	United Kingdom	In Northern Ireland a Human Rights Commission was established as an outcome of the peace process. (references)
Minorities	Bhutan	Human rights groups maintain that this action prejudices any eventual outcome of negotiations over the return of the refugees to the country. (references)
	Switzerland	When the Socialist Party challenged the decision, the Government reviewed the outcome but upheld the decision under the law granting cantons the right to autonomous discretion. (references)
Political Economy	Australia	Thus, our bilateral relationship is essentially unaffected by the outcome of national elections. (references)
Political Rights	Pakistan	There were no complaints that pressure and vote buying changed the outcome of the elections. (references)
	Ukraine	However, most observers believe that the outcome of the referendum generally reflected the will of the electorate. (references)
	Venezuela	Losing candidates for several governorships alleged that fraud or irregularities affected the outcome of the voting. (references)
Trade	Hungary	Furthermore, the absence of a prior notice or review period often leaves companies with little opportunity to influence the outcome or plan ahead. (references)
Worker Rights	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Authorities were conducting internal and criminal investigations at year's end, and suspended six Bijelina police officers pending the outcome of the investigations. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds -- the omens thence derived being called auspices. Newspaper reporters and certain miscreant lexicographers have decided that the word -- always in the plural -- shall mean "patronage" or "management"; as, "The festivities were under the auspices of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Body-Snatchers"; or, "The hilarities were auspicated by the Knights of Hunger." A Roman slave appeared one day Before the Augur. "Tell me, pray, If --" here the Augur, smiling, made A checking gesture and displayed His open palm, which plainly itched, For visibly its surface twitched. A denarius (the Latin nickel) Successfully allayed the tickle, And then the slave proceeded: "Please Inform me whether Fate decrees Success or failure in what I To-night (if it be dark) shall try. Its nature? Never mind -- I think 'Tis writ on this" -- and with a wink Which darkened half the earth, he drew Another denarius to view, Its shining face attentive scanned, Then slipped it into the good man's hand, Who with great gravity said: "Wait While I retire to question Fate." That holy person then withdrew His scared clay and, passing through The temple's rearward gate, cried "Shoo!" Waving his robe of office. Straight Each sacred peacock and its mate (Maintained for Juno's favor) fled With clamor from the trees o'erhead, Where they were perching for the night. The temple's roof received their flight, For thither they would always go, When danger threatened them below. Back to the slave the Augur went: "My son, forecasting the event By flight of birds, I must confess The auspices deny success." That slave retired, a sadder man, Abandoning his secret plan -- Which was (as well the craft seer Had from the first divined) to clear The wall and fraudulently seize On Juno's poultry in the trees. G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recount sought by Al Gore, but Al Gore could have reversed the outcome by the smallest of margins had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Outcome" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Outcome" is used about 3,636 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.97%	3,635	2,675
Noun (common)	0.03%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3,636	N/A

Expressions using "outcome": extraction of the outcome data ♦ Fatal Outcome ♦ Glasgow Outcome Scale ♦ Glasgow outcome score ♦ normal operation with successful outcome ♦ Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) ♦ Outcome Assessment (Health Care) ♦ outcome cell ♦ outcome value ♦ Pregnancy Outcome ♦ retrieval outcome ♦ search outcome ♦ successful outcome ♦ Treatment Outcome ♦ uncertain outcome ♦ unsuccessful outcome. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "outcome": outcome-based.
	Ending with "outcome": multiple-outcome.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "outcome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rezultat (conclusion, consequent, fruit, job, offspring, outgrowth, reflex, result, score, train, upshot), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, shoot, vent). (various references)

Arabic		‏نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, payoff, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, upshot, work), ‏حصيلة (result). (various references)

Bulgarian		резултат (aftermath, conclusion, consequent, count, effect, end, event, harvest, issuance, offspring, outgrowth, produce, product, progeny, purpose, result, score, sequel), последствие (after effect, consequence, consequent, sequel), изход (conclusion, egress, event, exit, hole, issuance, issue, mouth, outflow, outlet, result, way out). (various references)

Chinese		結果 (result), 究竟 (actually, after all, result), 结果 (Consequent, Consequently, result, upshot). (various references)

Czech		výsledek (effect, offspring, outgrowth, product, result, score, upshot). (various references)

Danish		udfald (conclusion, effect, result). (various references)

Dutch		uitkomst (recovery, result, salvage, salvation, solution). (various references)

Farsi		پی امد (Consequence, Issue, Result), نتیجه (Affect, Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Sequel, Success, Upshot), حاصل (Growth, Harvest, Heir, Outgrwth, Perquisite, Product, Result, Resultant, Resume, Upshot, Yield), برامد (Consequence, Expenditure, Expense, Issue, Result). (various references)

Finnish		tulos (answer, consequence, finding, issue, result). (various references)

French		résultat, issue (outlet, way out), conséquence (outgrowth), aboutissement. (various references)

German		Ergebnis (conclusion, consequence, count, effect, fruit, issue, result, resulting, score, upshot, yield). (various references)

Greek		έκβαση (issue, outgrowth, result, upshot). (various references)

Hebrew		תולדה (begetting, birth, conclusion, consequence, corollary, offspring, procreation, result, sequel, upshot), תוצאה (aftermath, consequence, effect, product, result, sequel, termination, upshot), נולד (born, coming events, result). (various references)

Hungarian		kimenetel (egression, issue, success, the long and the short, upshot). (various references)

Italian		risultato (accrued, achievement, achievements, attainment, conclusion, consequence, effect, purpose, result, return, success, upshot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		成行き (course of events, development, progress, result), 成り行き (course of events, development, progress, result), 成否 (result, success or failure), 仕儀 (developments, situation), 勝負　 (victory or defeat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しぎ (city assemblyman, conference, conjecture, consultation, criticism behind one's back, developments, guess, personal opinion, practice jump, sandpiper, situation, snipe), なりゆき (course of events, development, progress, result), せいひ (direct ratio, result, right and wrong, success or failure). (various references)

Korean		결과 (Consequence, Outgrowth, result). (various references)

Manx		eiyrtys (after-effects, aftermath, consequence, effect, pursuit, repercussion, result, sequel). (various references)

Pig Latin		outcomeay.(various references)

Portuguese		resultado (aftermath, attainment, conclusion, consequent, count, effect, end, fruit, harvest, kirn, produce, progeny, pursuance, reflex, result, sequel, spawn), efeito (action, break, consequent, effect, impression, result, side), conseqüência (aftermath, conclusion, consecution, consequence, consistency, effect, fruit, product, progeny, result, sequel), êxito (accident, speed, success, swat, triumph). (various references)

Romanian		urmare (consequence, continuation, effect, end, following, fruit, result, sequel, succession), rezultat (child, conclusion, effect, end, event, fruit, issue, offspring, outgrowth, product, progeny, result, resume, sum, upshot), produs (child, commodity, growth, manufacture, offspring, produce, product, result), efect (act, action, consequence, deed, effect, impact, purpose, result, tendency, working). (various references)

Russian		результат (action, after-effect, conclusion, effect, end-product, event, fruit, offspring, produce, progeny, purpose, result, sequel, ultimation, upshot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rezultat (outgrowth, result, upstroke), ishod (issue, offspring, result, upshot). (various references)

Spanish		resultado (accomplishment, aftermath, answer, consequence, effect, foregone, issue, lot, product, result, return, score, sequence, total, upshot). (various references)

Swedish		resultat (conclusion, effect, issue, offspring, off-spring, outgrowth, progeny, result, results, score, upshot). (various references)

Turkish		sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot). (various references)

Ukrainian		результат (conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, development, eduction, effect, end, issue, offspring, omnium, outgrowth, output, produce, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, result, subsequence, termination, upshot), кінець (close, closing, decline, end, extremity, finish, last, overthrow, terminal, truce), вихід (cast, egress, emergence, exit, exodus, orifice, out, outgo, outgoing, outing, outlet, output, secession, yield, yielding), випускний отвір (nozzle, outage, outlet), наслідок (after effect, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, effect, event, heritage, offspring, outgrowth, produce, progeny, sequel, sequence). (various references)

Vietnamese		hậu quả (consequence, event, issue, repercussion). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	eventu, eventum, eventus, proventum, successu, successum, successus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 4, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	O gar nomoV orghn katergazetai ou gar ouk estin nomoV oude parabasiV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Lex enim iram operatur ubi enim non est lex nec praevaricatio
Old English	990	West Saxon	Forðy æ bringeð ierre. And þær þa nis æ þær nis na misdæd.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For the lawe worchith wraththe; for where is no lawe, there is no trespas, nethir is trespassyng.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Because the lawe causeth wrathe. For where no lawe is there is no trasgression.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 4, Verse 15
Cebuano	Kay ang kasugoan mosangpot man sa kapungot sa Dios; apan diin gani wala ang kasugoan, wala usab diha ang kalapasan.
Croatian	Ta Zakon raða gnjev; gdje pak nema Zakona, nema ni prekršaja.
Danish	Thi Loven virker Vrede; men hvor der ikke er Lov, er der heller ikke Overtrædelse.
Dutch	Want de wet werkt toorn; want waar geen wet is, daar is ook geen overtreding.
Finnish	Sillä laki saa aikaan vihaa; mutta missä lakia ei ole, siellä ei ole rikkomustakaan.
German	Sintemal das Gesetz nur Zorn anrichtet; denn wo das Gesetz nicht ist, da ist auch keine Übertretung.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Hukum agama Yahudi mendatangkan hukuman Allah. Tetapi kalau hukum tidak ada, maka pelanggaran pun tidak ada.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Karena yang didatangkan oleh Taurat itu murka, tetapi barang di mana yang tiada bertaurat, di situ tiadalah pelanggar hukum.
Italian	La legge infatti provoca l'ira; al contrario, dove non c'è legge, non c'è nemmeno trasgressione.
Latvian	Jo likums rada dusmas. Kur nav likuma, tur nav pârkâpuma.
Maori	Ko ta te ture hoki e mahi ai, he riri; engari ki te kahore he ture, kahore hoki he hara.
Norwegian	for loven virker vrede; men hvor det ikke er nogen lov, er det heller ingen overtredelse.
Portuguese	Porque a lei opera a ira; mas onde não há lei também não há transgressão.
Rumanian	pentrucq Legea aduce mknie; wi unde nu este o lege, acolo nu este nici cqlcare de lege.
Russian	ЙВП ЪБЛПО РТПЙЪЧПДЙФ ЗОЕЧ, РПФПНХ ЮФП, ЗДЕ ОЕФ ЪБЛПОБ, ОЕФ Й РТЕУФХРМЕОЙС.
Shuar	Akupkamu akui shuar umirkachka ti Asutniáshtatuak. Tura atsakuinkia ¿Asutniátniukait? ¿Itiurak umirtsuk ikiuktin?
Swahili	Sheria husababisha ghadhabu; lakini kama hakuna Sheria, haiwezekani kuivunja.
Swedish	Vad lagen kommer åstad är ju vredesdom; men där ingen lag finnes, där finnes icke heller någon överträdelse.
Uma	Apa' roe Alata'ala lau-di to tarata ngkai Atura Pue', apa' mpotiboki-ta Atura-na toe. Ane ke Alata'ala uma mpowai' -ta Atura-na, ke uma-ta masala' mpotiboki Atura-na toe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "outcome": outcomes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Outcome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Moutome, Octocom, Otocom, outcamp, outcomne, Southcom, Southcote. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "outcome" (pronounced ou"tku'm)
3	-k u' m	overcome, income.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-m-o-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: comet, comte.
	-3 letters: come, coot, cote, cute, meou, moot, mote, moue, mute, tome, toom.
	-4 letters: coo, cot, cue, cum, cut, ecu, emu, met, moc, moo, mot, mut, oot, out, toe, tom, too.
	-5 letters: em, et, me, mo, mu, oe, om, to, um, ut.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-m-o-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: outcomes.
	+3 letters: coulometer, coulometry, ecotourism, outcompete.
	+4 letters: computerdom, coterminous, coulometers, coulometric, countermemo, countermove, customhouse, ecotourisms, monoculture, mucoprotein, noncomputer, noncustomer, outcompeted, outcompetes, proctodaeum, uncommonest.
	+5 letters: ascomycetous, closemouthed, computerdoms, contemptuous, conterminous, contumelious, coulometries, countermemos, countermoved, countermoves, countrywomen, customhouses, customshouse, diatomaceous, fluorometric, macropterous, monocultures, mononucleate, mucoproteins, multicolored, mycetomatous, noncustomers, outcompeting, overdocument, proctodaeums, subcomponent, thermocouple.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
executive outcome	43	clinical outcome	6
outcome	42	disease ebm management management management outcome quality	6
outcome based education	29	outcome study	6
outcome measurement	20	nursing outcome classification	6
outcome research	17	chemistry learning organic outcome principal	5
learning outcome	15	center educational national outcome	5
outcome management	15	co group leaders outcome therapy	5
health outcome study	14	educator evaluation nurse outcome patient	5
outcome measure	10	outcome student	5
civil outcome war	9	outcome system	4
hmrp.net outcome	9	database outcome	4
outcome assessment	9	medical outcome trust	4
2 outcome war world	8	assessment information outcome set	4
1 outcome war world	8	in learning literacy ontario outcome	4
nam outcome viet war	8	educational outcome	4
head outcome start	8	concept outcome system	4
outcome productivity quality	7	learning maryland outcome	4
outcome based evaluation	7	engineering.com outcome	4
outcome evaluation	7	glasgow outcome scale	4
outcome science	7	learning ohio outcome proficiency test	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Stylin' baby" by John Stevens Commentary: "Female baby with background omitted. <br>please let me know if used...i'd like to see the outcome. no "jaggies" at full size."	"Fairground 2" by Ben Jones Commentary: "Funnfair ride at night. i like the outcome of this photo alot. ."
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Outcome

Definition: Outcome

Outcome

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Acquisition

Egress

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