resolve

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To find a solution to (a problem).

   • 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.
2. 2

   To reduce to simple or intelligible notions

   To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or…

   To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.

   • I resolve to finish this work before I go home.
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   1. 4

      To determine or decide in purpose

      To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

      • 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: […]
   2. 5

      To come to an agreement or make peace

      To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

      • After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.
   3. 6

      To break down into constituent parts

      To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      To cause to perceive or understand

      To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

      • 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: […]
   5. 8

      To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

   6. 9

      To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

   7. 10

      To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code

      To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

   8. 11

      To melt

      To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

      • 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.
   9. 12

      To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

   10. 13

       To disperse or scatter

       To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

   11. 14

       To relax

       To relax; to lie at ease.

       • resolve himself into all sports and looseness again
   12. 15

       To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

   13. 16

       To solve (an equation, etc.).

   14. 17

       Determination

       Determination; will power.

       • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
       • Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
   15. 18

       A determination to do something

       A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

       • 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.
   16. 19

       An act of resolving something

       An act of resolving something; resolution.

       • 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.
   17. 20

       Alternative spelling of re-solve.

The neighborhood

• synonymfortitude
• synonyminner strength
• synonymresoluteness
• synonymsticktoitiveness
• synonymtenacity
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