Crossword clues for resolving
resolving
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resolve \Re*solve"\ (r?*z?lv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resolved (-z?lvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resolving.] [L. resolvere, resolutum, to untie, loosen, relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- + solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. F. r['e]soudare to resolve. See Solve, and cf. Resolve, v. i., Resolute, Resolution.]
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To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
--Shak.Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again.
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To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. ``Resolve my doubt.''
--Shak.To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile.
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To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
Sir, be resolved. I must and will come.
--Beau. & Fl.Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse?
--Pope.In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region.
--Sir W. Raleigh.We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
--Milton. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
(Math.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
--Hutton.(Med.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
(Mus.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
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To relax; to lay at ease. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.To resolve a nebula.(Astron.) See Resolution of a nebula, under Resolution.
Syn: To solve; analyze; unravel; disentangle.
Wiktionary
n. The act of forming a resolution. vb. (present participle of resolve English)
WordNet
n. analysis into clear-cut components [syn: resolution]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "resolving".
Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now firmly lodged in his brain.
A pair of shadowy figures crawled out from beneath a desk across the room, resolving into Dillian Pressor and his son, Jorad, as they stepped beneath one of the permlights.
It is your journey to resolving your demons that makes the play the prevaricating tour de force that it is.
The vibrant light from the multihued ceiling above them caught in the crystal prismatic refractors, sending spinning flashes of color dancing wildly around the room, resolving as it slowed into a gleaming, pulsing arc of red light which came to rest on the floor where Omet lay.
Resolving to act with more grace, Ghislaine uncurled her cold, stiff limbs and moved closer to the fire.
Jefferson had been slower, more cautious and ambivalent than Adams about resolving his views on independence.
February, Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had traveled to Lahore, Pakistan, to promote bilateral talks aimed at resolving the Kashmir problem and other differences.
The dense green of the shore was resolving into identifiable trees, bluejack oak and cedar, but even so the distance was too great.
Intellection, the unity there is in all that issues from these Firsts, until it has traversed the entire Intellectual Realm: then, resolving the unity into the particulars once more, it returns to the point from which it starts.
And though Monimia had forfeited all title to his regard, so ill could he bear the prospect of her distress, that he entrusted his dear companion with the half of what remained, to be expended for her use, fully resolving to screen her from the shocks and temptations of want, as the circumstances of his future fate would allow.
Zionism, great Zionist leaders and thinkers such as Nahum Goldmann originally dreamed that Israel, like other civilized states, would also be anchored in international institutions and might even form part of a multiethnic federation with the Arab states of the Middle East, thereby resolving the dilemma in which Jewish diaspora liberalism found itself.
Every bit as troubled as Robyn by their lack of real progress in resolving the murders of Spyder Nielsen and Keller, he knew they must be edging closer.
They forthwith quitted all the posts they had occupied between the Lambro and Adda, resolving to repass the Po and retreat to Tortona.
There were so many more glamorous places to work--such as the big planet-finder telescope array laid out in a North Pole crater, capable of resolving the surfaces of Earth-like planets orbiting suns spread across fifty light-years.
The untamedness of numbers is in their order, resolving upwards into a speculated beauty.