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Dissolve vs Solve - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between dissolve and solve

is that dissolve is to solve; to clear up; to resolve while solve is a solution; an explanation.

As verbs the difference between dissolve and solve

is that dissolve is to terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding while solve is to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

As nouns the difference between dissolve and solve

is that dissolve is a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next while solve is a solution; an explanation.

dissolve

English

(dissolution)

Verb

(dissolv)
  • To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
    • ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
  • To destroy, make disappear
  • To liquify, melt into a fluid
  • * Shakespeare
    • as if the world were all dissolved to tears
  • To be melted, changed into a fluid
  • (chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
  • (chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nothing can dissolve us.
  • To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  • * Fairfax
    • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
  • * The Declaration of Independence
    • For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
  • (legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
    • to dissolve an injunction
  • (cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
  • To resolve itself as by dissolution
  • (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  • * Tennyson
    • dissolved the mystery
  • * Bible, Daniel v. 16
    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
  • * Dryden
    • Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

    Synonyms

    * melt * (cinematography) fade out

    Derived terms

    * dissolvable * dissolver

    Related terms

    * dissoluble * dissolute * dissolution * dissolvent

    Antonyms

    * (terminate a union of multiple members actively) establish, found

    See also

    * melt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

    • Synonyms

    * fade out

    solve

    English

    Verb

    (solv)
  • To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • * South
    • True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
  • * Tickell
    • God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
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  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * resolve * solution

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.
    • (Shakespeare)

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