Evolve vs Dissolve - What's the difference?
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To move in regular procession through a system.
* Sir M. Hale
* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
* (w) (1819-1885)
To change, transform, develop.
* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
To destroy, make disappear
To liquify, melt into a fluid
* Shakespeare
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
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
* Fairfax
* The Declaration of Independence
(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
(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
* Bible, Daniel v. 16
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
* Dryden
(cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
As verbs the difference between evolve and dissolve
is that evolve is to move in regular procession through a system while dissolve is to terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.As a noun dissolve is
(cinematography) a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.evolve
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Verb
- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
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In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
dissolve
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(dissolution)Verb
(dissolv)- ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
- as if the world were all dissolved to tears
- Nothing can dissolve us.
- Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
- For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
- to dissolve an injunction
- dissolved the mystery
- Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
- Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
