Definition of "resolve" in английский

verb

1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).

2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

   • to resolve a riddle

3. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.

   • I resolve to finish this work before I go home.

4. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

   • He was resolved by an unexpected event.

5. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

   • After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.

6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

7. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

8. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

9. (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

10. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

11. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

12. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

13. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

14. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

15. (obsolete) To relax; to lie at ease.

16. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

17. (mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.).

noun

1. (uncountable) Determination; will power.

   • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.

2. (countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

3. (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of re-solve.