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Solution vs Solve - What's the difference?

solution | solve |

Solve is a derived term of solution.



As nouns the difference between solution and solve

is that solution is a homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances while solve is a solution; an explanation.

As a verb solve is

to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

solution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
  • An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
  • The answer to a problem.
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  • , title= , chapter=5 citation , passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
  • A product, service or suite thereof.
  • (legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
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  • Antonyms

    * problem

    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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  • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • (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)

    Anagrams

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