resolve
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.
Base: solve
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: resolves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resolving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resolved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resolved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resolves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To find a solution to (a problem).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Exeter. Shall I call in Thambaſſadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Couſin, til we be reſolude / Of ſome ſerious matters touching vs and France.
gloss: To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to resolve a riddle
Resolve my doubt.
If such a dreamy touch should fall,
⁠O turn thee round, resolve the doubt,
⁠My guardian angel will speak out
In that high place, and tell thee all.
gloss: To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I resolve to finish this work before I go home.
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
gloss: To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was resolved by an unexpected event.
Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]
gloss: To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
pos: verb
examples: After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.
gloss: To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
transitive
examples: The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
And ye Immortal Souls, that once vvere Men, / And novv reſolv’d to Elements agen.
gloss: To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
pos: verb
examples: In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.
We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
Reſolve me Reaſon, vvhich of theſe is vvorſe, / VVant vvith a full, or vvith an empty purſe: […]
She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But he resolved him only by saying, "Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner."
gloss: To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
pos: verb
gloss: To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
pos: verb
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
gloss: To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
pos: verb
gloss: To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, / Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, / And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.
gloss: To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
reflexive
examples: When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.
gloss: To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To relax; to lie at ease.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: resolve himself into all sports and looseness again
gloss: To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
pos: verb
gloss: To solve (an equation, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: Determination; will power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
I wish for unending resolve, to always get up when I fall.
gloss: A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!
His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.
gloss: An act of resolving something; resolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing.
Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.
Synonyms: fortitude
inner strength
resoluteness
sticktoitiveness
tenacity
Related words: set of one's jaw
Derived words: misresolve
preresolve
proresolving
reresolve
resolvability
resolvable
resolvase
resolvend
resolver
self-resolving
superresolve
time-resolved
unresolve
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: sulattaa
lang: German
word: schmelzen
lang: German
word: lösen
lang: German
word: auflösen
lang: German
word: verflüssigen
lang: German
word: aufweichen
lang: German
word: erweichen
lang: Middle English
word: resolven
lang: Spanish
word: disolver