Dissolve vs. Resolve — What's the Difference?

To cause to pass into solution

To make a firm decision about

To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.

To decide or express by formal vote

To cause to lose definition; blend or blur

To cause (a person) to reach a decision

To cause to disappear or vanish; dispel

To change or convert

To break into component parts; disintegrate

To find a solution to; solve

To bring to an end, as by breaking up; terminate or annul

To remove or dispel (doubts).

To dismiss (an assembly such as a legislative body).

To bring to a usually successful conclusion

To cause to be moved emotionally or upset.

(Medicine) To cause reduction of (an inflammation, for example).

To pass into solution

(Music) To cause (a tone or chord) to progress from dissonance to consonance.

To become liquid; melt

(Chemistry) To separate (an optically inactive compound or mixture) into its optically active constituents.

To lose definition; become blurred or indistinguishable

To render parts of (an image) visible and distinct.

To become disintegrated; disappear

(Mathematics) To separate (a vector, for example) into coordinate components.

To be broken up into separate parts

(Archaic) To separate (something) into constituent parts.

To be brought to an end; be annulled or terminated

(Obsolete) To cause (something) to melt or dissolve

To be moved or overcome emotionally

To reach a decision or make a determination

To make a transition between shots in a cinematic work using a superimposition in which the first shot fades out while the second shot gradually appears.

To become separated or reduced to constituents.

A transition in a cinematic work consisting of a superimposition in which the first shot fades out while the second shot gradually appears. Also called lap dissolve.

(Music) To undergo resolution.

(transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

Firmness of purpose; resolution

(transitive) To destroy, make disappear.

A determination or decision; a fixed purpose

(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

A formal resolution made by a deliberative body.

(intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.

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

To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.

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

To be disintegrated by such immersion.

(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.

(transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.

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

(transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

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

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.

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

To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

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

(intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.

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

(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

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

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

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

(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

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

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

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

To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

To solve (an equation, etc.).

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

(uncountable) Determination; will power.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

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

To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

(countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.

(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; - said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

Cause to go into a solution;

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.

Pass into a solution;

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

Become weaker;

To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.

Come to an end;

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).

Stop functioning or cohering as a unit;

To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; - used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

Cause to lose control emotionally;

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.

Lose control emotionally;

To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

Cause to fade away;

To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.

Become or cause to become soft or liquid;

To relax; to lay at ease.

Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up;

To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

Declare void;

To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.

To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.

The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.

That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

The trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose;

A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

Bring to an end; settle conclusively;

Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

Reach a decision;

Understand the meaning of;

Make clearly visible;

Find the solution;

Cause to go into a solution;