resolve vs solve

resolve

verb
  • To find a solution to (a problem). 

  • To make a firm decision to do something. 

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

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

  • To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. 

  • To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. 

  • To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. 

noun
  • A determination to do something; a fixed decision. 

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

  • Determination; will power. 

  • An act of resolving something; resolution. 

solve

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

  • to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime) 

  • 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. 

  • To loosen or separate the parts of. 

  • To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. 

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