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Upshot

Definition: Upshot

Upshot

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upshot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Note: Upshot \Up"shot`\, noun. [Up shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Compare to the phrase to cast up an account.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Upshot

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

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Synonyms within Context: Upshot

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completion

Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli.

Effect

Noun: effect, consequence; aftergrowth, aftercome; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance; upshot, issue, denouement; end; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.

Judgment

Noun: result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism; illation; corollary, porism; moral.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Upshot

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Upshot

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The upshot of the late elections --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Raymond Loewy, apartment at 900 5th Ave., New York City. Upshot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rockefeller Center. Oblique upshot of five buildings. Credit: Library of Congress.

International Music Hall, Radio City, New York, New York. Upshot balcony III. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vero Beach High School, Vero Beach, Florida. Upshot. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Upshot

"Upshot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Upshot" is used about 159 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%15924,860

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Upshot

Expressions using "upshot": in the upshot on the upshot the upshot of the matter is to the upshot. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "upshot": Upshot-bagley.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Upshot

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

upshot

91

business contact manager upshot

7

upshot marketing

4

corporation upshot

2

automation force sales upshot

2

sfa upshot

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Upshot

Language Translations for "upshot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rezultat (conclusion, consequent, fruit, job, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, reflex, result, score, train), 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, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, windup). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, payoff, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, work), ‏زبدة (butter, choice, fat, gist, quintessence, shortening), ‏ثمرة (child, effect, fruit, gain, product, profit, result). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

окончателен резултат, заключение (conclusion, decision, finale, illation, inference, peroration), последица (after effect, backwash, consequence, effect, follow up, issue, offspring, outgrowth, progeny, ramification, repercussion, result, sequel, train). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"果 (Consequent, Consequently, Outcome, result). (various references)

   

Czech

  

závìr (breech, conclusion, deduction, eduction, end, ending, finish, inference, result), výsledek (effect, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, product, result, score), konec (amen, bottom, close, death, end, ending, finish, tail, terminal, termination, the end of, time is up). (various references)

   

Danish

  

upshotbrænder (upshot burner), brænder med vertikal flamme (upshot burner). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

upshot-brander (upshot burner). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نتیجه (Affect, Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Sequel, Success), حاصل (Growth, Harvest, Heir, Outcome, Outgrwth, Perquisite, Product, Result, Resultant, Resume, Yield), سرانجام , خلاصه (Abstract, Compendium, Condensation, Digest, Epitome, Extract, Outline, Resume, Scantling, Schema, Short, Sketch, Sum, Summary, Summation, Synopsis), اخرین شماره . (various references)

   

French

  

résultat, conséquence. (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Greek 

  

έκβαση (issue, outcome, outgrowth, result), αποτέλεσμα (after effect, conclusion, effect, outcome, outgrowth, result, return, score). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מסק " (conclusion, deduction, inference), תול"" (begetting, birth, conclusion, consequence, corollary, offspring, outcome, procreation, result, sequel), תוצא" (aftermath, consequence, effect, outcome, product, result, sequel, termination). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végeredmény (consequence, issue, payoff, pay-off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

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

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"のつまり (after all is said and done, final outcome, in the end). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とどのつまり (after all is said and done, final outcome, in the end). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otupshay

   

Portuguese

  

resultado final (final result), remate (abutment, omega, punch line, tail-end), fim (aim, close, closing, drift, end, ending, expiration, expiry, finality, fine, finish, function, gaol, goal, jail, last, object, point, purpose, quietus, sake, stop, surcease, target, term, termination, terminus, tip, use, windup), desfecho (denouement, pay-off), conclusão (close, consequence, deduction, effect, end, ending, finale, finding, inference, result, termination, windup). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sfârşit (all over, cessation, close, conclusion, death, decline, dissolution, end, end-all, ended, ending, exhausted, finality, fine, finis, finish, issue, quietus, stop, term, termination), rezultat (child, conclusion, effect, end, event, fruit, issue, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, product, progeny, result, resume, sum), deznodãmânt (catastrophe, denouement, issue, pay off), consecinţã (aftermath, consequence, issue, result, sequel), concluzie (conclusion, decision, deduction, determination, end, finding, inference, laconism, opinion). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

результат (action, after-effect, conclusion, effect, end-product, event, fruit, offspring, outcome, produce, progeny, purpose, result, sequel, ultimation), заключение (amen, close, closing, completion, conclusion, contraction, deduction, finale, finding, illation, imprisonment, incarceration, peroration). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ishod (issue, offspring, outcome, result). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

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

   

Turkish

  

sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum), 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, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate), netice (conclusion, consequence, consequent, effect, result, sequel, sum). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

святкування (celebration, celebrity, commemoration, feast, festival, fete, gala, jamboree, jubilee, solemnization, wake), результат (conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, development, eduction, effect, end, issue, offspring, omnium, outcome, outgrowth, output, produce, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, result, subsequence, termination). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

kết qu cuối cùng, kết luận kết qu l , $the upshot$ kết qu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Upshot

Derivations

Words beginning with "upshot": upshots. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Upshot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ewshot, Hulshort, Ilshat, Kupho, Ludshott, Oxshott, Pukhov, pushout, Pushto, Pussot, upsot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Upshot"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "upshot" (pronounced u"pshÄ't)
4-p sh Ä' tgrapeshot, snapshot.
3-sh Ä' tbuckshot, earshot, gunshot, overshot, scattershot, slingshot.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Upshot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tophus.

Words within the letters "h-o-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: ouphs, phots, phuts, pouts, shout, south, spout, stoup, thous, tophs.

-2 letters: hops, host, hots, huts, opts, opus, ouph, oust, outs, phot, phut, posh, post, pots, pout, push, puts, shop, shot, shut, soph, soth, soup, spot, stop, thou, thus, toph, tops, tosh, tups, tush.

-3 letters: hop, hot, hup, hut, ohs, ops, opt, out, pht.

 Words containing the letters "h-o-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: hotspur, outpush, typhous, upshoot, upshots.

 

+2 letters: aphthous, hotspurs, housetop, phaseout, pothouse, southpaw, superhot, taphouse, touchups, tuckshop, upshoots, upthrows.

 

+3 letters: boughpots, courtship, hornpouts, hospitium, housekept, housetops, hypocaust, outpushed, outpushes, penthouse, pesthouse, phaseouts, pitchouts, pothouses, pouchiest, southpaws, taphouses, tuckshops, tutorship, upgrowths, upholster.

 

+4 letters: authorship, autographs, autotrophs, auxotrophs, courtships, eutrophies, houseplant, hypocausts, hypotenuse, imposthume, mouthparts, outpitches, outpunches, outpushing, patchoulis, penthouses, pesthouses, phototubes, pilothouse, polyanthus, posthumous, postlaunch, pothunters, prothallus, turophiles, tutorships, upholsters, upholstery, upshooting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Upshot


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 70 73 68 6F 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    .--.    ...    ....    ---    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0073 0068 006F 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558285748186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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