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- Dictionaryupshot/ˈʌpʃɒt/
noun
- 1. the final or eventual outcome or conclusion of a discussion, action, or series of events: "the upshot of the meeting was that he was on the next plane to New York"
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Moreover, Wordnik returns several examples where the word is used positively, negatively, and neutrally, with no preponderance in any particular direction (e.g., "The upshot was a 221-point gain in the Dow Jones" & "the upshot is households have been backing down their debt and other financial obligations, but we still have … a mortgage problem"). Plus, your won/lost experiment isn't conclusive.
Jan 1, 2013 · It then follows that upshot would be the final drawing and shooting of the bow. When a bow is drawn the arrow points at the ground, as the string is drawn back the arrow and bow are brought horizontal. I believe that is the meaning of up-draw, the drawing back of the string and the raising of the arrow and bow to finally aim at the target. Share.
Jan 5, 2016 · Dope is a rather new slang word that is used to define someone or something excellent, great, impressive. OED says that it is originally in African-American usage and chiefly among rap musicians and enthusiasts. However, you can hear it outside the rap realm nowadays. OED's first citation is from 1981: Yo, man, them boys is dope... This record ...
Jan 18, 2013 · Synonyms fair, just, equitable, impartial, unprejudiced, unbiased, objective, dispassionate These adjectives mean free from favoritism, self-interest, or preference in judgment. Fair is the most general: a fair referee; a fair deal. Just stresses conformity with what is legally or ethically right or proper: " a just and lasting peace " (Abraham ...
Jan 25, 2014 · I should perhaps have been more precise and said that thus and therefore are not used in the apodosis of a conditional construction, but in this case, the upshot is the same. “If I ate poisonous French fries, I would therefore get sick”, with therefore in the matrix clause, is ungrammatical.
Jun 8, 2018 · Conclusion. The upshot of these Google Books matches is that the expression "Wile E. Coyote moment" goes back at least to 1993, when it appeared in a "moviebook" about an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle; that it appeared in an economic context at least as early as 2000; that the probable source of its current popularity in economic settings is an editorial/essay by Paul Krugman from 2003; and ...
Feb 1, 2016 · What exactly a noun represents isn't really tightly fixed in the way we imagine it to be. It can change radically or subtly with the context of the sentence that we see it in and the context of that sentence within the larger conversation. The upshot of this is that if a park seems like a place to you, it is! If it seems like a thing to you, it ...
Jun 12, 2021 · The upshot of this is that, young people should not be made to feel bad about yod coalescence, it's perfectly normal, standard English. The idea that yod coalescence is not a feature of standard Englishes is a myth promulgated by ne'er do well prescriptionists. Most people who think that they don't have yod coalescence as a feature of their normal speech, in actual fact, do.
Jan 21, 2011 · Here are the relevant definitions: brace (verb) — prepare (someone or oneself) for something difficult or unpleasant. steel (verb) — mentally prepare (oneself) to do or face something difficult. — New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd Edition) Another related phrase is brace up: brace up (phrasal verb) — be strong or courageous.
May 28, 2020 · The upshot of the definitions seems to be that whether use of alternate to mean "alternative" is mostly North American or universal in English, it is not exclusively North American—and this in turn suggests that there is at least some level of use of alternate in this sense in the UK.
