Dissolve
[dɪ'zɒlv] or [dɪ'zɑlv]
Definition
(noun.) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out.
(verb.) declare void; 'The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections'.
(verb.) come to an end; 'Their marriage dissolved'; 'The tobacco monopoly broke up'.
(verb.) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; 'The decree officially dissolved the marriage'; 'the judge dissolved the tobacco company'.
(verb.) become or cause to become soft or liquid; 'The sun melted the ice'; 'the ice thawed'; 'the ice cream melted'; 'The heat melted the wax'; 'The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase'; 'dethaw the meat'.
(verb.) pass into a solution; 'The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee'.
(verb.) cause to go into a solution; 'The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water'.
(verb.) become weaker; 'The sound faded out'.
(verb.) lose control emotionally; 'She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme'.
(verb.) cause to lose control emotionally; 'The news dissolved her into tears'.
(verb.) cause to fade away; 'dissolve a shot or a picture'.
Inputed by Brenda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Liquefy, melt.[2]. Disunite, sever, separate, divide, loose, disorganize, break apart.[3]. Destroy, ruin.[4]. Terminate, bring to an end, put an end to, break up.
v. n. [1]. Melt, liquefy, be melted.[2]. Vanish, disappear, fade, melt away, be dissipated.[3]. Perish, crumble, be destroyed.
Typed by Levi
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MELT_and_CONSOLIDATE]
Editor: Lucius
Definition
v.t. to loose asunder: to separate or break up: to put an end to (as a parliament): to melt: to destroy as by fire: (arch.) to resolve as doubts.—v.i. to break up: to waste away: to crumble: to melt.—adj. Diss′olūte loose esp. in morals: lewd: licentious.—adv. Diss′olūtely.—ns. Diss′olūteness; Dissolū′tion the breaking up of an assembly: change from a solid to a liquid state: a melting: separation of a body into its original elements: decomposition: destruction: death; Dissolū′tionism; Dissolū′tionist.—ns. Dissolvabil′ity Dissolv′ableness.—adjs. Dissolv′able Dissolv′ible capable of being dissolved or melted.—n. and adj. Dissolv′ent a solvent having the power to melt.
Typist: Shirley
Examples
- Take one table-spoonful of starch, dissolve it in cold water, and when the boiled starch gets lukewarm pour it over it, stir well, and strain. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dissolve the sal soda, borax, and sal tartar in the hot water and add the other ingredients. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dissolve the citric acid in hot water, add the sugar, and lastly the lemon and almonds. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Take a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid and put into it little bits of sheet zinc as long as the acid will dissolve them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dissolve the corrosive sublimate in three ounces of the orange-flower water, add the hydrochloric acid, and set aside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dissolve 10 parts of soap in 20 of water, and add 3-1/2 parts of soda and one-half part of liquid ammonia and spirit of wine. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Coloring matter, dissolved in alcohol, may be put in and made of any shade you like. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We talk of breathing air, but what all living things really do is to breathe oxygen dissolved in water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The particles are not dissolved in the water, but are held there in suspension, as we call it technically. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The resultant compound i n turn dissolved water; hence the phenomena of evaporation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It had charred as leather chars, but no part of the surface had dissolved. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When dry, dip the paper into a solution of iodide of potassium, containing 500 grains dissolved in 1 pint of water, and let it remain in the solution two or three minutes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The remainder of the sugar settles at the bottom of the vessel, and cannot be dissolved by any amount of stirring. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Part of a fluid, having more of what it dissolves, will communicate to other parts that have less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The positive metal electrode gradually dissolves and replaces the metal lost from the solution by deposit and electroplating can continue as long as any positive electrode remains. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Water dissolves salt, and also dissolves lead nitrate, but if a salt solution is mixed with a lead nitrate solution, a solid white substance is formed in the water (Fig. 32). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And anything which is infected by any of these evils is made evil, and at last wholly dissolves and dies? Plato. The Republic.
- But if carbon and zinc are used, a current is again produced, the zinc dissolving away as before, and bubbles collecting on the carbon plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He felt himself dissolving and sinking to rest in the bath of her living strength. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Marine glue is a cement made by dissolving India rubber in oil of turpentine or coal-naphtha, to which an equal quantity of shellac is added. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They supposed that oxygen and nitrogen entered into chemical union, the one element dissolving the other. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It requires no expensive apparatus to show the effect of Dissolving Views on a small scale. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The image is then fixed by dissolving out the chloride of silver unaltered by light in a bath of hyposulphite of soda. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Inputed by Hubert