different between objective vs resolve

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin obiect?vus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/, /?b?d???k.t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

objective (comparative more objective, superlative most objective)

1. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
2. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
3. Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
4. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
6. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
   • 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN

     The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.

Usage notes

• Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.

Antonyms

• subjective

Derived terms

• nonobjective
• objective correlative
• objectivity

Translations

Noun

objective (plural objectives)

1. A material object that physically exists.
2. A goal that is striven for.
   • Objectives are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
3. (grammar) The objective case.

   Synonyms: object case, objective case

4. (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
5. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:goal

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b.??k.tiv/
• Homophone: objectives

Adjective

objective

1. feminine singular of objectif

Latin

Adjective

object?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of object?vus

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolv? (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- +? solve.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?lv/, /?i??z?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv or Rhymes: -?lv
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?lv/

Verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
3. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
4. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

5. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.
7. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
   • 1596, Walter Raleigh, The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa

     In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But he resolved him only by saying, "Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner."

8. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
9. (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
10. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
11. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
12. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
    • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

      When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.

13. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
14. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
15. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

      resolve himself into all sports and looseness again

16. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
17. (mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.).

Derived terms

• resolvable
• resolver

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “resolve”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

resolve (countable and uncountable, plural resolves)

1. Determination; will power.

   It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
2. A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
   • 1995, William Arctander O'Brien, Novalis, Signs of Revolution (page 56)

     His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.

3. (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.
   • 2008, Matt Lombard, SolidWorks 2007 Bible (page 956)

     Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

Synonyms

• fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacity

Translations

See also

• set of one's jaw

Etymology 2

re- +? solve

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?s?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?s?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

1. (transitive) To solve again.

Translations

Anagrams

• reloves

Italian

Verb

resolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of resolvere

Anagrams

• solvere, svelerò, svolere

Latin

Verb

resolve

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

Portuguese

Verb

resolve

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of resolver
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of resolver