different between dissolve vs derezz

English

Etymology

Recorded since c. 1374, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• Hyphenation: dis?solve

Verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   Antonyms: establish, found

2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

   Synonyms: melt, formelt
4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

   • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

   • 1776, The Declaration of Independence

     For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

    Synonym: fade out

11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

      dissolved the mystery

    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence, Preface

      [Angels] dissolv'd in hallelujahs lie.

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Translations

See also

• melt

Noun

dissolve (plural dissolves)

1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

   Synonym: fade out

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissolvere

Anagrams

• disvolse

Latin

Verb

dissolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissolv?

Portuguese

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dissolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dissolver

English

Alternative forms

• derez

Etymology

From the film Tron, perhaps from de- and resolve or resolution.

Verb

derezz (third-person singular simple present derezzes, present participle derezzing, simple past and past participle derezzed)

1. (science fiction, intransitive, of an image) To disappear, or dissolve into pixels.

Usage notes

• Used especially of a holographic image.

Anagrams

• rezzed