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mediate | dissolve |

As an adjective mediate

is .

As a verb 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.

mediate

English

Verb

(mediat)
  • To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
  • To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
  • To divide into two equal parts.
  • (Holder)
  • To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
  • Adjective

  • Acting through a mediating agency.
  • * (Oliver Sacks)
  • Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
  • Intermediate between extremes.
  • (Prior)
  • Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

    Derived terms

    * mediately

    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

    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