resolve

  • (noun): Determination; will power.
  • (noun): A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
  • (noun): An act of resolving something; resolution.
  • (verb): To find a solution to (a problem).
  • (verb): To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
  • (verb): To make a firm decision to do something.
  • (verb): To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
  • (verb): To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
  • (verb): To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
  • (verb): To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
  • (verb): To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
  • (verb): To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
  • (verb): To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
  • (verb): To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
  • (verb): To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
  • (verb): To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
  • (verb): To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
  • (verb): To relax; to lay at ease.
  • (verb): To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
  • (verb): To solve (an equation, etc.).
  • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
  • to resolve a riddle
  • I resolve to finish this work before I go home.
  • He was resolved by an unexpected event.
  • After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.