dissolve
IPA: dɪzˈɑɫv
noun
- (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
verb
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
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Examples of "dissolve" in Sentences
- The partnership dissolved in the fall.
- Some of the oxygen dissolved in the sea water.
- The faculty was dissolved with the foundation.
- The cut and the dissolve are used differently.
- Parliament dissolved by the deposition of the monarch.
- Any soluble salts present on the surface will dissolve in the water.
- In five liters of water, only one gram of the hydrate will dissolve.
- Dissolved oxygen is sometimes added to the water to mobilize the uranium.
- The acetylene is pumped into the cylinder and it dissolves in the solvent.
- Osmosis is the diffusion of water and dissolve material though cell membranes.
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