Crossword clues for upshot
upshot
- Result of photo of the sky?
- Result of firing into the air?
- Result of competitions having missed lead piping
- Result involved in hitting a six?
- Bank taken aback by the way one arranges locks
- Harry Hotspur runs away in sequel
- Totally knackered after winning result
- Ultimate conclusion
- Final result
- Final outcome
- Ultimate outcome
- Net result
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upshot \Up"shot`\, n. [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.] Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the
upshot.
--Shak.
We account it frailty that threescore years and ten
make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence.
--De
Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A concise summary. 2 The final result, or outcome of something.
WordNet
Usage examples of "upshot".
The upshot was that only a very narrow strip of land between Bukhara and the Indian border remained to the Ameer, and that he had to undertake neither to station troops there nor to erect fortifications.
The first premise of this argument is a thumbnail version of the doctrine known as determinism, which can be put by saying that every event is the upshot of antecedent causes.
Moreover, whether the mythical events unfold in Central America, or in the Andes, or in Egypt, the upshot is also always pretty much the same: the civilizer is eventually plotted against and either driven out or killed.
And so strong by now was the will for cosmopolitanism that the upshot would almost certainly have been a triumph of sanity, had there not occurred in England an accident which tilted the whole precarious course of events in the opposite direction.
Whatever the truth of the matter, the upshot was this: in exchange for having the charges dropped, Fard agreed to leave Detroit once and for all.
There might be a great deal of bloodshed before it ended, but most of the blood would be Medusan, not Manticoran, and the most likely upshot would be a powerful, permanent military presence on Medusa in place of the lightly-armed NPA troopers now stationed there.
The upshot was that he got himself labeled an antisocial personality rather than his original psychopathy diagnosis.
The upshot was that once we left Camp Lejeune we had no medical supplies for treating the dogs if they became sick or injured.
And the upshot of his pondering is that Little Alfie scrapes up a few bobs here and there, and a few oats, and climbs on Governor Hicks one day and boots him in the slats and tells him to giddyup, and away he goes out of Miami, headed north, riding Governor Hicks and leading Last Hope behind him on a rope.
The upshot of this visit was that Bradley gave the letter, fastened up by now, with the map inside, to Colin Meadows to post.
The upshot is that the creatures traditionally called hominids become, under this arrangement, hominins.
It was rather a long confabulation, too, and one that both men seemed to take very seriously--though its upshot was apparently quite acceptable to both--and terminated abruptly with Mr.
The upshot of the meeting was that Ambassador Albright was dispatched on a trip to a half-dozen key Security Council members and Arab allies, along with Parris and Riedel, to make the case for staying the course on containment and gauge the reaction of her audiences.
Nonetheless, the upshot was clear: Corky and Tolland were in agreement that the chondrules were decidedly meteoric.
The upshot of the powwow was that the Chopunnish said they had sent three of their warriors with a pipe to make peace with the Shoshonees, last summer, as they had been advised to do by the white men.