Resolve vs Desi - What's the difference?
resolve | desi |
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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* 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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A member of the South Asian diaspora.
* 2011 August, Shagorika Easwar, "Hello ji!" (editor's column), Desi News (Canada), vol. 15, issue 8, p. 8:
As nouns the difference between resolve and desi
is that resolve is determination, will power while Desi is a member of the South Asian diaspora.As a verb resolve
is to find a solution to (a problem).As an adjective Desi is
of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of India; Indian.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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Synonyms
* fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacitydesi
English
(Desi)Alternative forms
* desiUsage notes
* For South Asians abroad, it has become a term that mainly identifies other fellow Indians. *: e.g. : Desi food refers to South Asian food like rice, daal, chappati etc. * Desi dance can refer to the popular dances in the movies to Punjabi dance, bhangra to classical dances like Bharathnatya, Kuchipudi etc.Noun
(en noun)- Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.