Dissolve



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 使固体溶解
• ［英］ v. 使固体溶解 ( make a solid become liquid)
• ［记］ dis ( 分开) +solve ( 松开) -> 松开分散 -> 溶解

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dissolvere, from dis- + solvere to loosen — more at solve
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to cause to disperse or disappear ; destroy <do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity — Francis Bacon>
    • b. to separate into component parts ; disintegrate
    • c. to bring to an end ; terminate <dissolve parliament>
    • d. annul <dissolve an injunction>
  • 2.
    • a. to cause to pass into solution <dissolve sugar in water>
    • b. melt, liquefy
    • c. to cause to be emotionally moved
    • d. to cause to fade in or out in a dissolve
  • 3. archaic detach, loosen
  • 4. to clear up <dissolve a problem>
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to become dissipated or decomposed
    • b. break up, disperse
    • c. to fade away
  • 2.
    • a. to become fluid ; melt
    • b. to pass into solution
    • c. to be overcome emotionally <dissolved into tears>
    • d. to resolve itself as if by dissolution <hate dissolved into fear>
    • e. to change by a dissolve <the scene dissolves to a Victorian parlor>
• ? dissolvable adjective
• ? dissolvent noun or adjective
• ? dissolver noun

II. noun

• Date: 1916
• a gradual superimposing of one motion-picture or television shot upon another on a screen

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