resolve

Definitions

• (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
• (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
• (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
• (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
• To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
• (transitive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
• To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
• (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
• (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
• (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
• (rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
• (rare) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
• (obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
• (medicine) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
• (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
• (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
• (math) To solve (an equation, etc.).