Untie vs Solve - What's the difference?
untie | solve |
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
* South
* Tickell
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, title= (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.
As verbs the difference between untie and solve
is that untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of while solve is to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.As a noun solve is
(obsolete) a solution; an explanation.untie
English
Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
Antonyms
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*solve
English
Verb
(solv)- True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
- God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
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