Concluded vs Resolved - What's the difference?
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(conclude)
To end; to come to an end.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
* Francis Bacon
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
* Shakespeare
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
* Addison
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
* Bible, Romans xi. 32
* Bible, Gal. iii. 22
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
(resolve)
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To find a solution to (a problem).
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
* Shakespeare
To solve again.
To make a firm decision to do something.
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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
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, title= To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Milton
(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
* Arbuthnot
(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
Determination, will power.
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As verbs the difference between concluded and resolved
is that concluded is (conclude) while resolved is (resolve).concluded
English
Verb
(head)conclude
English
Verb
(conclud)- The story concluded with a moral.
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- to conclude a bargain
- if we conclude a peace
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
Derived terms
* concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusibleAntonyms
* (to end) begin, initiate, startresolved
English
Verb
(head)resolve
English
Verb
(resolv)- to resolve a riddle
- Resolve my doubt.
- He was resolved by an unexpected event.
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
- Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.
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- Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?
- In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not 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.
- When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* resolvable * resolverReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- ''It took all my resolve to go through with it.
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