Resolve vs Fancy - What's the difference?
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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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The imagination.
* Milton
An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea.
* Shakespeare
An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; an impression.
* John Locke
A whim.
Love or amorous attachment.
The object of inclination or liking.
* Shakespeare
Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
* De Quincey
A diamond with a distinctive colour.
That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
* Mortimer
(obsolete) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
* 1970 , Marta Weigle, Follow my fancy: the book of jacks and jack games (page 22)
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Decorative.
Of a superior grade.
Executed with skill.
(colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
(obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
* Macaulay
(formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
(British) would like
(British, informal) To be sexually attracted to.
(dated) To imagine, suppose.
* John Locke
* Thackeray
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
* Dryden
To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
* Shakespeare
Resolve is a related term of fancy.
As verbs the difference between resolve and fancy
is that resolve is (resolver) while fancy is (formal) to appreciate without jealousy or greed.As a noun fancy is
the imagination.As an adjective fancy is
decorative.resolve
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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, tenacityfancy
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Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
(fancies)- In the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief. Among these fancy next / Her office holds.
- How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making?
- I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children.
- I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.
- He took a fancy to her.
- to fit your fancies to your father's will
- Trainspotting is the fancy of a special lot.
- the cat fancy
- He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident.
- a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy
- London pride is a pretty fancy for borders.
- (Shakespeare)
- When you have mastered plainsies, the regular jack game, and have learned all the rules, you will be ready to use this part of the book. A fancy is a variation of plainsies which usually requires more skill than plainsies does.
- When you get good at jacks, try adding a fancy . A fancy is an extra round at the end of a game. It makes the game a little harder. Jack Be Nimble, Around the World, or Black Widow are some fancies.
Derived terms
* flight of fancy * tickle someone's fancyAdjective
(er)- This is a fancy shawl.
- This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.
- He initiated the game winning play with a fancy , deked saucer pass to the winger.
- I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.
- This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.
Synonyms
* (decorative) decorative, ornate * (unnecessarily complicated) highfalutinAntonyms
* (decorative) plain, simple * (unnecessarily complicated) simpleVerb
(en-verb)- I fancy your new car, but I like my old one just fine.
- I fancy a burger tonight for dinner
- Do you fancy going to town this weekend?
- I fancy that girl over there.
- I fancy you'll want something to drink after your long journey.
- Fancy meeting you here!
- Fancy that! I saw Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy kissing in the garden.
- If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.
- He fancied he was welcome, because those around him were his kinsmen.
- I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
- he whom I fancy , but can ne'er express
- We fancy not the cardinal.