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Solve   /sɑlv/   Listen
Solve

verb
(past & past part. solved; pres. part. solving)
1.
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.  Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out.  "Work out your problems with the boss" , "This unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out" , "Did you get it?" , "Did you get my meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"
2.
Find the solution.  Synonym: resolve.  "Solve for x"
3.
Settle, as of a debt.  Synonym: clear.  "Solve an old debt"



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"Solve" Quotes from Famous Books



... do this, in spite of your wife's warning that it was better that you should not solve ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... and anathemas, and how she, a respectable and proper woman, of good Leipsic people, ever could have allowed herself to attack any one, least of all her excellent master, in such abusive language were problems she could never solve. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... started with the impulse of protecting Gray, and his shame went deeper still. He did not go to the training-table that night, and the moonlight found him under the old willows wondering and brooding, as he had been—long and hard. Gray was too much for him, and the mountain boy had not been able to solve the mystery of the Blue-grass boy's power over his fellows, for the social complexity of things had unravelled very slowly for Jason. He saw that each county had brought its local patriotism to college and had its county club. There were too few students from the hills and a sectional ...
— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... us came to visit us once in those days. She came to stay a week, but all our efforts to make her happy failed, we could not imagine why, and she got up her anchor and sailed the next morning. We did much guessing, but could not solve the mystery. Later we found out what the trouble was. It was my tramping up and down between the courses. She conceived the idea that I could not ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

... you know that when I say a thing I mean it. Therefore I tell you this—I am going to set to work, as soon as I have quite recovered from the nightmare I have been through, to discover what is happening. I am going to solve every detail of this mystery, and if there is some gang of scoundrels at work committing burglaries and what not—because I feel quite sure this affair is in some way connected with the robbery at Holt—I am going to get them convicted. The doctor tells me I shall be perfectly ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux


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