React and Resolve
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
- (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- (v.i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(Military) REACT stands for rapid execution and combat targeting
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- The trait of being resolute.
- usage: "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"
- synonyms: resoluteness, firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution
- A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.
- synonyms: resolution, declaration
verb
- Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
- usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
- synonyms: decide, settle, adjudicate
- Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.
- synonyms: conclude
- Reach a decision.
- usage: "he resolved never to drink again"
- synonyms: purpose
- Understand the meaning of.
- usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
- synonyms: answer
- Make clearly visible.
- usage: "can this image be resolved"
- Find the solution.
- usage: "solve an equation"; "solve for x"
- synonyms: solve
- Cause to go into a solution.
- usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
- (v.i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
- (v.i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
- (v.i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
- (v.i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
- (v.i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
- (v.i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
- (v.i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
- (v.i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
- (v.i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
- (v.i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to or the result of.
- (v.i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
- (n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
- (v.i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
- (v.i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt or dissolve.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary