(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
Example Sentences:
(1) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(2) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(3) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(4) After Listeria, a bacterium, is phagocytosed by a macrophage, it dissolves the phagosomal membrane and enters the cytoplasm.
(5) In muscle cells the mitochondria were in the process of dissolving and the sarcoplasmic reticulum formed elongate cisternae.
(6) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
(7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
(8) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(9) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
(10) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
(11) Each hand washing is filtered, and the residue collected on a membrane filter is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Osteoclasts dissolve bone mineral by the vectorial secretion of hydrogen ion at their osseous attachment site.
(14) This collagenolytic activity, which dissolved the collagen substrate, was derived from B. gingivalis and human GCF.
(15) Dexon's tensile strength is high initially and it retains its strength through the critical period of muscle-scleral wound healing, then dissolves in a rapid uniform manner.
(16) These results show that Mg-containing apatites dissolve to a greater extent than Mg-free apatites with the subsequent reprecipitation of Mg-poor apatites.
(17) In recent years, the clinical application of aerosol inhalation therapy has increased rapidly, however, many problems are not yet fully dissolved.
(18) In 1952, Clarence Agress performed an experiment on dogs to demonstrate his idea that a thrombus in a coronary artery could be dissolved without harm to the myocardium.
(19) The results show that when Cs is dissolved in aqueous buffer, the terminal atoms of residue 1 side chain are not available for binding to antibodies recognizing the face of the molecule defined by residues 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, suggesting that the chain is probably folded back under the molecule, as observed in the crystal structure.
(20) To further characterize the role of superoxide anion-radical in the vanadium redox cycling, the increase of optical density of vanadate(V) dissolved in Tris buffer was measured at 328 nm during the addition of KO2.
Indissoluble
Definition:
(a.) Not dissoluble; not capable of being dissolved, melted, or liquefied; insoluble; as few substances are indissoluble by heat, but many are indissoluble in water.
(a.) Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike other Old Testament marriages, these are held to be indissoluble.
(2) It is an indissoluble part of British culture and democracy, a fact that the House of Lords well understood when it introduced its public interest amendment in 2003.
(3) In short, language is in its essence ethical, and the ethical experience is indissolubly bound to the verb.
(4) Played here by Anthony Hopkins , in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.
(5) In its indissoluble relation to the repetition compulsion and Nirvana principle, Thanatos is the bedrock of much of Freud's later philosophy.
(6) The development of blood capillaries of the human intraorganic nerves is a complex process, indissolubly connected with development of myelin and amyelin conductors.
(7) By creating a colourful link with the iconography of the nation, Mas hopes to make an indissoluble connection between himself and the essence of being Catalan.
(8) Since 2008, and the massive Sichuan earthquake that radicalized his artistic practice, his art and activism have become indissolubly joined into a single enterprise, ambitious, open-hearted, and indispensable in an art world more than happy to look the other way at abuses in China and everywhere else.
(9) As the US republic evolved, the lesson of Douglass’s insight – that there is an indissoluble link between liberty and the freedom to read what one chooses – was baked into its civic culture.
(10) Labour lost trust on both leadership and economics, the two indissolubly intertwined.
(11) In 1948 he had three stories accepted by the New Yorker and never submitted his work to the "slicks" again after that, his name becoming indissolubly linked with that of the New Yorker.
(12) Three of these developed indissoluble intravesical blood clots which persisted until they were evacuated surgically 5 to 17 days after cessation of AMCA therapy.
(13) While clinging to doctrine that considers gay sex wrong and marriage indissoluble, bishops in Rome for the pope’s extraordinary synod on the family endorsed a midway report which said the church should accompany its teachings “with mercy” and focus on the “positive aspects” of different life models.
(14) The principle of indissoluble unity and interconnection of changes in structure and function is emphasized, while the thesis of the primacy of function in the shaping of the form and the concept of functional diseases are rejected.
(15) Is that uniqueness indissolubly linked to operation by religious orders?