resolve

Meaning

1. To find a solution to (a problem).
2. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
3. To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
4. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
5. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
6. To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
7. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
8. To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
9. To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
10. To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
11. To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
12. To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
13. Determination; will power.
14. A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
15. An act of resolving something; resolution.
16. Alternative spelling of re-solve.

Etymology / origin

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.

Related words

Descendant words

• resolba(Cebuano) (der)
• résolver(French) (bor)
• resolver(Spanish) (cog)

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