Confront vs Solve - What's the difference?
confront | solve |
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
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, title= (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
(mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
As verbs the difference between confront and solve
is that confront is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge while solve is to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.As a noun solve is
(obsolete) a solution; an explanation.confront
English
Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.
Derived terms
* confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontmentsolve
English
Verb
(solv)- True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
- God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
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