What's the difference between mitigate and solve?

Mitigate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
  • (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
  • (2) The small numbers involved (29) and the difficulties in matching subjects may have mitigated against demonstrating a statistically significant difference between the two groups.
  • (3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
  • (4) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
  • (5) This has improved the capacity of the neuroanaesthetist to mitigate the inevitable fluctuations which occur and prevent their ill effects.
  • (6) The survey was designed to assess whether these individuals followed the 1986 EPA guidelines for follow-up testing and mitigation.
  • (7) Despite doing a study of mitigation options, no decisions are planned until 2012.
  • (8) The level of disruption to services will vary widely and depend on the number of staff joining the strike, the mitigating impact of the NHS’s contingency planning and how many patients need acute care, such as A&E care or surgery.
  • (9) Aid workers have warned that children in the disaster zone left by typhoon Haiyan are particularly vulnerable, as they set up child-focused services to mitigate the impact.
  • (10) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
  • (11) At present, however, technical and economic factors combine to mitigate against MRI.
  • (12) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
  • (13) Potential strategies to avoid the precipitating antigen antibody reaction or to mitigate the resulting effector cascade are described.
  • (14) The results of this study serve to mitigate concern over the possible carcinogenicity of MDA in the diet, since less than 10% of the MDA in several foods containing highly unsaturated fatty acids was found in the free form.
  • (15) The deputy president, William Ruto, said it is now up to the developed world to mitigate the fallout, suggesting that other countries including the UK should resettle the refugees who could soon be kicked out of Kenya.
  • (16) Application of the formula in 3 patients with the juvenile CLF, the M. Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt, resulted in a mitigated course of the disease.
  • (17) "The one thing that we have come up with is the importance of adaptation and mitigation choices.
  • (18) There is an art as well as a science to accurately presenting devastating facts while mitigating potentially unnecessary emotional damage.
  • (19) The issue is the capacity of the law to mitigate it.
  • (20) Delivery of oxygenated autologous blood to the myocardium at risk during inflation may help mitigate this ischemia.

Solve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
  • (n.) A solution; an explanation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (4) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (5) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (6) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (7) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (8) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
  • (9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
  • (10) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
  • (11) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
  • (12) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
  • (13) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
  • (14) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
  • (15) When the alternatives are considered, it seems most consistent with Piaget's ideas to regard both cognitive and affective phenomena as problem-solving organizations.
  • (16) Chronic constipation is a very frequent disease in western countries but fibres can often solve the problem.
  • (17) Overall, these results confirm that the medial septum plays a crucial role in the acquisition of problem solving.
  • (18) Students' responses to the 15 role conflict situations revealed many good problem solving skills and adaptations.
  • (19) The crystal structure of proteolytically modified human ACT has been solved at 2.7-A resolution (Baumann et al., 1991).
  • (20) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.