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[ UK /sˈɒlv/ ]
[ US /ˈsɑɫv/ ]
VERB
  1. find the solution
    solve an equation
    solve for x
  2. settle, as of a debt
    clear a debt
    solve an old debt
  3. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
    this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out
    Did you get my meaning?
    did you solve the problem?
    did you get it?
    He could not work the math problem
    did you get it?
    Work out your problems with the boss

How To Use solve In A Sentence

  • Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
  • Certain animations are still a bit hitchy, especially involving Mayer's car, but there's still time to resolve those before release. AdventureGamers.com
  • The report, which was based upon conversations with children who telephoned helplines, also claimed that the hidden problem of solvent abuse kills more children than drugs every year.
  • According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
  • They're looking to solve the mystery, and there are a lot of questions that are unanswered right now.
  • So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
  • SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? Cratylus
  • The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
  • Police may now reinvestigate her unsolved murder.
  • We may reasonably shake our heads at these romantic resolves. Times, Sunday Times
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