Difference between Resolve and Dissolve

What is the difference between Resolve and Dissolve?

Resolve as a noun is determination, will power. while Dissolve as a noun is a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

Resolve

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Determination, will power.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To find a solution to (a problem). To solve again. To make a firm decision to do something.

Example sentence: Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Dissolve

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbandingTo destroy, make disappearTo liquify, melt into a fluidTo be melted, changed into a fluidTo disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.To be disintegrated by such immersion.To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.To resolve itself as by dissolution

Example sentence: Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

We hope you now know whether to use Resolve or Dissolve in your sentence.

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