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  • English Word Resolve Definition That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
  • English Word Resolved Definition of Resolve
  • English Word Resolved Definition Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich.
  • English Word Resolvedly Definition So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly.
  • English Word Resolvedly Definition Resolutely; decidedly; firmly.
  • English Word Resolvedness Definition Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution.
  • English Word Resolvent Definition Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
  • English Word Resolvent Definition That which has the power of resolving, or causing solution; a solvent.
  • English Word Resolvent Definition That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
  • English Word Resolvent Definition An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given pproblem depends.
  • English Word Resolver Definition That which decomposes, or dissolves.
  • English Word Resolver Definition That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined.
  • English Word Resolver Definition One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.
  • English Word Resolving Definition of Resolve
  • English Word Resonance Definition The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
  • English Word Resonance Definition A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments.
  • English Word Resonancy Definition Resonance.
  • English Word Resonant Definition Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.
  • English Word Resonantly Definition In a resonant manner.
  • English Word Resonator Definition Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.
  • English Word Resorb Definition To swallow up.
  • English Word Resorbent Definition Swallowing up.
  • English Word Resorcin Definition A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.
  • English Word Resorcylic Definition Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.
  • English Word Resorption Definition The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.
  • English Word Resort Definition Active power or movement; spring.
  • English Word Resort Definition To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
  • English Word Resort Definition To fall back; to revert.
  • English Word Resort Definition To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
  • English Word Resort Definition The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.