Usually means: Find an answer or explanation.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word solve:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. solve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solve: Merriam-Webster
  3. solve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Solve, solve: Wordnik
  8. solve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solve: Wiktionary
  10. solve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solve: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. solve: Dictionary.com
  14. solve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. solve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Solve (advertising agency), Solve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Solve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. solve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. solve: Rhymezone
  20. solve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. solve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. solve: FreeDictionary.org
  23. solve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. solve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. solve: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solve: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Solve: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Solve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -solve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOLVE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solve: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
verb:  to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
verb:  (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.
verb:  (chemistry, archaic) To dissolve
noun:  (now rare, chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation.

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