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resolve

verb

  1. resolve, come to a solution, solution in practice. solving an issue.
  2. to declare or decide by a formal resolution and vote
  3. decide, commit to an endeavor (think new year's resolutions)
  4. separate into constituents
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noun

  1. resolve like require.resolve() on behalf of files asynchronously and synchronously
L9487 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɒlv/ / /ɹiːˈzɒlv/ / /ɹɪˈzɑlv/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.

  1. Determination; will power.

    It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.

    Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.

  2. A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

    And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!

    His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.

  3. An act of resolving something; resolution.

    Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing.

    Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

verb

  1. Alternative spelling of re-solve.