What's the difference between resolve and untie?

Resolve


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
  • (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
  • (v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
  • (v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
  • (v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
  • (v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
  • (v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
  • (v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
  • (v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
  • (v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
  • (v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
  • (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
  • (v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
  • (v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
  • (n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
  • (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
  • (2) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
  • (3) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
  • (4) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (5) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (6) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
  • (7) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
  • (8) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
  • (9) In individuals who resolved their HCV infection or progressed to chronicity, anti-HCV IgM was produced transiently at or near the onset of clinically diagnosed acute hepatitis.
  • (10) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (12) Without operative correction of the tricuspid valve, secondary tricuspid regurgitation can resolve following mitral valve surgery alone.
  • (13) The aza analogue (RS)-3-hydroxy-2,5-pyrrolidinedione-3-acetic acid (6) of the five-membered citric anhydride (2) was prepared in the sequence citric acid----2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one-5,5-diacetic acid (1)----citric acid beta-amide (3)----6 and used to resolve ambiguities in the mechanism of the citrate synthase reaction.
  • (14) These findings resolved upon cessation of timolol and reappeared on 3 occasions shortly after reinstitution of the beta blocker therapy.
  • (15) The Pr(III)-induced shifts for several resolved nonexchangeable backbone proton resonances were compared with calculated shifts using the known x-ray structure.
  • (16) The data indicate that about 56% of the eyes responded to therapy with 1% F3TdR alone even when therapy was initiated after signs of stromal inflammation had begun to appear and epithelial disease was resolving.
  • (17) The infection responded to oxytetracycline and the anaemia subsequently resolved.
  • (18) No major complication was recorded and a case of asymptomatic pneumothorax resolved spontaneously within 48 hours.
  • (19) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
  • (20) A spokeswoman for the airport said it was resolved by 8.15am.

Untie


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.
  • (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  • (v. t.) To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  • (v. i.) To become untied or loosed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're simply untying heads' hands so they can spend the money as they see fit.
  • (2) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
  • (3) 1.28am BST Heat 15-20 Spurs, 3:53 remaining in 1st quarter Tony Parker sneaks through two defenders to untie it.
  • (4) LD may be used to follow the complexation both stoichmetrically and structurally, since when specified to unti complex concentration LD provides a measure of the average orientation of the absorbing transition dipole.
  • (5) The donor heart is transplanted heterotopically into the recipient with the brachiocephalic artery anastomosed to the renal artery with 10 single sutures, and the pulmonary artery to the renal vein with 2 continuous, semicircular sutures which were left untied.
  • (6) In both experiments, bonding to each other of both tied and untied specimens was observed one month after implantation.
  • (7) The EU changed its food aid policy in 1996, shifting to cash donations, and Canada fully untied its food aid budget in 2008 – a move commended internationally, including by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  • (8) The holding power of many of the knots that untied was substantially less than that of knots reaching knot break.
  • (9) On the 20th realimentation day, the absolute red cell volume had increased less than the absolute plasma volume, the total blood volume was almost normal per unti of body size.
  • (10) In our series of 42 patients who underwent adjustable-suture surgery, 22 cases were not adjusted and 30 cases were left untied.
  • (11) When one of the soldiers wanted to have sex with one of us, he would come and untie us, take us away then bring us back to tie up,” said Nyabol, shaking at the memory.
  • (12) Most other donors have "untied" their food aid budgets and have shifted towards buying food closer to where it is needed, on the basis that it is cheaper, faster and easier to find food local people are used to eating.
  • (13) Furthermore, no knot has come untied or developed other complications.
  • (14) By passing a spring guidewire into the catheter under fluoroscopic control, the knot was easily untied leaving the catheter correctly in place.
  • (15) An unrelated second pair of repeat sequences was located at 0.67 and 0.88 map untis.
  • (16) They called for a scaling up of aid commitments, for concrete timetables for reaching the commitments, and for improving the quality of aid, including full untying of aid (lifting requirements by some donors that aid be spent on goods and services provided by companies based in their own countries, or a limited number of countries).
  • (17) Multilaterals benefit from having greater independence from immediate political considerations; their aid is untied and much less fragmented, and their larger projects reduce the administrative burden on recipients.
  • (18) The affair did leave some positive legacies: a cross-party consensus that aid should be officially "untied" from commercial interests, a new act enshrining in law its poverty reduction focus, and a cabinet minister for the new Department for International Development (DfID).
  • (19) Standing with the cheering crowds by the finish line on Monday, Liliana’s mother Nancy said that only “little things” – a red traffic light, an untied shoelace – prevented them from being right where Richard was killed that day.
  • (20) the heat quantity generated by the tumour per untis of volume and time, computed from from intramammary temperature and thermal conductivity measurements made using of fluvographic needle probes), is typical of each cancer and re7ains remarkably constant during the growth in spite of themorphological and of the morphological and circulatory changes; b) the tumour doubling time tau2v (calculated from measurements of the tumour size effected at various stages of the evolution by assuming an exponential growth), is univocally related to 1 by a hyperbolic law so that the faster the tumour is growing themore heat generates; c) q is significanty higher and tau2v shorter in all cases where the histological examination has revealed signs of lymphatic dissemination (carcinomatous lymphangitis, lymph node metastases,...).

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