resolve

verb resolves · resolving · resolved

1. transitive 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. transitive To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. to resolve a riddle
3. intransitive 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.
4. transitive To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. He was resolved by an unexpected event.
5. 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.
6. intransitive, reflexive, transitive 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.
7. 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.
8. To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
9. To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. 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.
10. To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
11. rare, transitive 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.
12. intransitive, rare, reflexive To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.
13. obsolete, transitive To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
14. dated To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
15. obsolete To relax; to lie at ease. resolve himself into all sports and looseness again
16. To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
17. archaic, transitive To solve (an equation, etc.).

noun resolves

1. uncountable Determination; will power. It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
2. countable 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!
3. countable 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.

Similar: fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacity

verb resolves · resolving · resolved

1. alternative Alternative spelling of re-solve.re-solve