Word Finder - resolved

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To find a solution to (a problem).

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To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

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to resolve a riddle

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To make a firm decision to do something.

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I resolve to finish this work before I go home.

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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

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He was resolved by an unexpected event.

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

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

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To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

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

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To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

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To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

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

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To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

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To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

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To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

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To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

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To relax; to lay at ease.

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To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

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To solve (an equation, etc.).

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To solve again.

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I’ll have to resolve the equation with the new values.

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Determined; fixed in one's purpose

The Dutch Company in 1614 again resolved to send a fleet to the Moluccas by the westward route, and Joris Spilbergen was appointed to the command as admiral, with a commission from the States-General.

Finding that he had been forestalled, Garcia resolved to return home.

So the prisoners resolved to leave their prison at once.

I resolved that I, too, would learn to speak.

Nothing was truly resolved except possibly the hostility between them.

Hearing these words Jim resolved to conquer his alarm.

It was one thing to tell herself everything was resolved, but quite another to thoroughly accept something she had always considered wrong.

Other problems, at least temporarily, have resolved themselves.

Political problems were not to be so resolved, but practically.

This base is resolved into its active components by d-tartaric acid, l-nicotine-d-tartrate crystallizing out first.

They first prepared a map of the country round Peking, which was submitted to the emperor Kang-hi; and, being satisfied with the accuracy of the European method of surveying, he resolved to have a survey made of the whole empire on the same principles.

But Cyrus and Lysander were resolved not to fight till they had a clear advantage, and Alcibiades took a small squadron to Phocaea.

Maybe there was a chance the situation could be resolved.

When that passionate young prince, in revenge for a fancied wrong, resolved to drive the English out of Bengal, his first step was to occupy the fortified factory at Cossimbazar, and make prisoners of Hastings and his companions.

The latter resolved to devote the rest of his life to the emancipation of the Jews.

He had resolved to construct the Panama Canal without locks, to make it an uninterrupted navigable way.

No sooner had the compromise of the investitures been conduded than it was manifest that the burghers of the new enfranchised communes were resolved to turn their arms against each other.

The House immediately resolved on Danby's impeachment.

While I hadn't formulated in my mind how to tackle the problem, I resolved to attack it one on one and keep animosity at bay.

The moment of a small magnet may be resolved like a force.

Obviously whatever Josh was struggling with had not been resolved.

No city calls itself either Guelpi or Ghibelline till it has expelled one-half of its inhabitants; for each party is resolved to constitute the state according to its own conception, and the affirmation of the, one programme is the negation of the other.

His circumstances became embarrassed, and he resolved to leave the country secretly and to return home.

But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

The young king resolved to attack the nearest of his three enemies - Denmark - first.

To secure for themselves the command of trade the leading commercial families resolved to erect themselves into a close gild, which should have in its hands the sole direction of the business concern, the exploitation of the East.

The question as to whether copper really was first used in Egypt is not yet resolved, and many arguments can be brought against the theory of Egyptian origin and in favour of one in Syria or further north.26 Egypt has also recently been credited with being the inceptor of the whole " megalithic (or heliolithic, as the fashionable word now is) culture " of mankind, from Britain to China and (literally) Peru or at any rate Mexico via the Pacific Isles.27 The theory is that the achievements of the Egyptians in great stone architecture at the time of the pyramid-builders so impressed their contemporaries that they were imitated in the surrounding lands, by the Libyans and Syrians, that the fame of them was carried by the Phoenicians further afield, and that early Arab and Indian traders passed on the megalithic idea to Farther India, and thence to Polynesia and so on so that both the teocalli of Teotihuacan and Stonehenge are ultimately derived through cromlechs and dolmens innumerable from the stone pyramid of Saqqara, built by Imhotep, the architect of King Zoser, about 3100 B.C. (afterwards deified as the patron of science and architecture).

Mandi had been scarcely a year on the throne when he resolved to accomplish the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Qahtaba made a victorious raid as far as Adhruliya (Dorylaeum); it was on his proposition that Mandi resolved on building the frontier town called Iladath (Adata), which became an outpost.

Three years later, he resolved even to give to him the precedence in the succession instead of Musa, yielding to the importunity of Khaizoran, the mother of the two princes, and to his own predilection.

He proceeded instantly to the forest for wood, being resolved that it should not be made of unsuitable material; and as he searched for and rejected stick after stick, his friends gradually deserted him, for they grew old in their works and died, but he grew not older by a moment.

At last the Medes resolved to make an end of the intolerable state of their country by erecting a kingdom, and chose Deioces king.

After the Eusebians had, at a synod held in Antioch, renewed their deposition of Athanasius they resolved to send delegates to Constans, emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on which they had proceeded.

He next devoted himself to medicine, but his natural inclination proved too strong for him, and within a year he resolved to give his whole time to mathematics.

Naturally he selects fire, according to him the most complete embodiment of the process of Becoming, as the principle of empirical existence, out of which all things, including even the soul, grow by way of a quasi condensation, and into which all things must in course of time be again resolved.

Meanwhile John III., king of Portugal, had resolved on sending a mission to his Indian dominions, and had applied through his envoy Pedro Mascarenhas to the pope for six Jesuits.

After five months' voyage the ship reached Mozambique, where the captain resolved to winter, and Xavier was prostrated with a severe attack of fever.

He therefore resolved to fix himself at Lausanne.

Then, poor but not discouraged, he resolved to be a lawyer, and after reading Coke upon Littleton and the Virginia laws for a few weeks only, he strongly impressed one of his examiners, and was admitted to the bar at the age of twentyfour, on condition that he spend more time in study before beginning to practise.

Lord Auckland resolved to enter upon a war, and on the 1st of October 1838 published at Simla his famous.

Warned, however, that his arrest was imminent, and possibly persuaded by Rory O'Donnell (created earl of Tyrconnel in 1603), whose relations with Spain had endangered his own safety, Tyrone resolved to fly from the country.

But the rebels collected adherents from the villages; and, when they resolved to violate the sabbath to the extent of resisting attack, they were joined by the company of the Assideans (Hasidim).

His companions refused to permit him to surrender and were resolved to die.

In 1828 the Astronomical Society, to mark their sense of the benefits conferred on science by such a series of laborious exertions, unanimously resolved to present her with their gold medal, and in 1835 elected her an honorary member of the society.

The foreign consuls intervened in the hope of bringing about a peaceful settlement, but the Sultan resolved on the employment of force, and an expedition despatched to Vamos effected the relief of that town with a loss of 200 men.

Throughout the Ministry Mr. Henderson showed himself resolved on a strenuous prosecution of the war.

When Zeus had resolved to destroy all mankind by a flood, Deucalion constructed a boat or ark, in which, after drifting nine days and nights, he landed on Mount Parnassus (according to others, Othrys, Aetna or Athos) with his wife.

When the governor learned that a second Provincial Congress was called to meet in April 1775 he resolved to convene the assembly on the same day.

He would have liked to organize a big move against the Bolsheviks from the west, but such a move could not be made while the Entente Powers were resolved to keep Germany out, and while they sympathized with all the new organizations hostile to RussiaEsthonia, Latvia and Poland.

Saul's daughter Michal loved him; and her father, whose jealousy continued to increase, resolved to put the young captain on a perilous enterprise, promising him the hand of Michal as a reward of success, but secretly hoping that he would perish in the attempt.