English Dictionary

resolve

/ɹɪˈzɒlv/

verb

(transitive) To find a solution to (a problem). / (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

I need to resolve this issue before it gets worse.

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

to resolve a riddle

意味（3）

(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.

I resolve to finish this work before I go home.

意味（4）

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

He was resolved by an unexpected event.

意味（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.

意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

意味（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.

意味（8）

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

意味（9）

(optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

意味（10）

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

意味（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:

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.

意味（12）

(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.

意味（13）

(obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

意味（14）

(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

意味（15）

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

resolve himself into all sports and looseness again

意味（16）

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

意味（17）

(mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.).