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Solve vs Unpuzzle - What's the difference?

solve | unpuzzle |

As verbs the difference between solve and unpuzzle

is that solve is to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out while unpuzzle is to solve (a puzzle); to work out.

As a noun solve

is a solution; an explanation.

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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  • (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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    unpuzzle

    English

    Verb

    (unpuzzl)
  • To solve (a puzzle); to work out.
  • * 2010 , Jill Kriegel (2010), commentary on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    • It is no ordinary paradox Dickens has set himself to unpuzzle here. The whispered truth behind every syllable of the human story is the staggering fact that finite man should find himself endowed with infinite expectations.