different between untie vs solve

English

Etymology

From Middle English untien, unteyen, unty?en, unti?en, from Old English unt??an (“to untie”), equivalent to un- +? tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

1. (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret

     Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.

2. (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
   • c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:

     Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.

4. (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
5. (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
   • 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)

     After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

Antonyms

• tie

Translations

Anagrams

• unite

English

Etymology

From Latin solv?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?lv/, /s?lv/

Verb

solve (third-person singular simple present solves, present participle solving, simple past and past participle solved)

1. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

   • True piety would effectually solve such scruples.

   • 1649, Thomas Tickell, Thoughts occasioned by the sight of an original picture of King Charles I taken at the time of his trial

     God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
2. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
3. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
4. (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.

Derived terms

• resolve
• solvable
• solution

Related terms

Translations

Noun

solve (plural solves)

1. (now rare, chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation.
   • 2014 February 4, The Party, Gil Ozeri and Gabe Liedman (writers), Michael Engler (director), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 16:

     KEVIN: I decided a long time ago that just because I love Raymond, doesn't mean I have to love the people he works with. Good solve, Detective.

   • 2017, Elodia Strain, The Dating Experiment (?ISBN):

     “Hey, Mr. Quilt Bandit.”
     Ian smiled. “Nice solve, Nancy Drew.”

Anagrams

• Loves, loves, slove, voles, voëls

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.ve/
• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

solve

1. third-person singular present indicative of solvere

Anagrams

• svelo, svelò, volse

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sol.u?e/, [?s????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sol.ve/, [?s?lv?]

Verb

solve

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

References

• solve in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)