Solve
/sɑlv/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A solution; an explanation. archaic
"The solve is this, that thou dost common grow."
Verb
- 1 To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
"True piety would effectually solve such scruples."
- 2 find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of wordnet
- 3 to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
"to solve a murder to solve a crime"
- 4 find the solution wordnet
- 5 To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
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- 6 settle, as of a debt wordnet
- 7 To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- 8 To loosen or separate the parts of. transitive
- 9 To loosen or separate the parts of.; To dissolve archaic, transitive
Example
More examples"You are too clever not to solve the hard problem."
Etymology
From Middle English solven, from Latin solvō.