Resolve
[rɪ'zɒlv] or [rɪ'zɑlv]
Definition
(verb.) find the solution; 'solve an equation'; 'solve for x'.
(verb.) make clearly visible; 'can this image be resolved?'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
(v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
(v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
(v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
(v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
(v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
(v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
(v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
(v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
(v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
(v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
(v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
(v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
(n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
(n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Analyze, decompose, decompound.[2]. Disentangle, interpret, decipher, unravel, explain, unfold.[3]. Reduce, change.[4]. (Math.) Solve, find the answer to.[5]. (Med.) Disperse, scatter.[6]. (Legislation.) Declare.
v. n. Intend, purpose, decide, determine, conclude, form a resolution, make up one's mind, take one's stand, come to a determination.
n. [1]. Intention, resolution, determination, fixed purpose.[2]. Declaration (by a legislature or an organized body), resolution.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DECIDE]
Edited by Hardy
Definition
v.t. to separate into parts: to analyse: to free from doubt or difficulty: to explain: to decide: to fix by resolution or formal declaration: (math.) to solve: (med.) to disperse as a tumour: (mus.) to carry a discord into a concord.—v.i. to determine.—n. anything resolved or determined: resolution: fixed purpose.—n. Resolvabil′ity.—adj. Rosol′vable that may be resolved or reduced to its elements.—n. Resol′vableness.—adv. Resol′vably.—adj. Resolved′ fixed in purpose.—adv. Resol′vedly firmly: clearly.—n. Resol′vedness.—adj. Resol′vent having power to resolve.—n. that which causes solution: (med.) a substance which resolves tumours: (math.) an equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.—n. Resol′ver.
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Examples
- And Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He and all the world thought hardly of me for my strange, unmotherly resolve, and I deserved to be misjudged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now as perceptions resolve themselves into two kinds, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- With the same resolve to keep up a show of conversation he said, about seven o'clock in the evening, There's an eclipse of the moon tonight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It seems to me very miserable not to resolve on some course and act accordingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yet I dreaded to witness the anguish which my resolve might excite in Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My dear Mrs Veneering, do let us resolve ourselves into a Committee of the whole House on the subject. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She drew in her breath sharply as one whose doubts are resolved. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town; and towards this place I resolved to proceed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If she had had any doubt which was her own Jeremiah, it would have been resolved by his impatience. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Nothing would be resolved by merely walking, walking away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely, and wrote the next day to tell me that we never were to meet again. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I dare say I am resolving against the very things that have given me the most trouble just now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Well, I have been resolving I won't, off and on, these ten years, said St. Clare; but I haven't, some how, got clear. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thus the great masses,--earth, a ir, fire, water,--assumed as simple by many philosophers from the earliest times, were resolving in to their constituent parts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Elinor resolving to exert herself, though fearing the sound of her own voice, now said, Is Mrs. Ferrars at Longstaple? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Resolving to go at once to Knowlesbury on foot, I led the way out of the vestry. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- By resolving not to set right the wrong he did you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That very night, while yet full of gratitude and good resolves, this whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The price of flax resolves itself into the same three parts as that of corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The choice of Hercules is a pretty fable; but Prodicus makes it easy work for the hero, as if the first resolves were enough. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That part which resolves itself into rent is less affected by them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Evadne's feminine prudence perceived how useless any assertion of his resolves would be, till added years gave weight to his power. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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