RESOLUTIONS Synonyms

• a cherished desire

• a strong drive for success

• have as one's ambition

• a will to succeed

• a cherished desire

• a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath

• the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

• the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

• an arrangement scheme

• something intended as a guide for making something else

• a decorative or artistic work

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something

• the creation of something in the mind

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect

• create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• create designs

• conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

• intend or have as a purpose

• the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

• the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

• game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

• a successful attempt at scoring

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal

• an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out

• undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

• serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

• the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed

• emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation

• belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

• an arrangement scheme

• scale drawing of a structure

• have the will and intention to carry out some action

• make plans for something

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• what something is used for

• the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose

• propose or intend

• reach a decision

• a reference point to shoot at

• a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

• the location of the target that is to be hit

• sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

• the trait of being resolute

• a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

• bring to an end; settle conclusively

• reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

• reach a decision

• understand the meaning of

• make clearly visible

• find the solution

• cause to go into a solution

• a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• the speech act of replying to a question

• the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

• a nonverbal reaction

• react verbally

• respond to a signal

• give the correct answer or solution to

• understand the meaning of

• give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

• be liable or accountable

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• match or correspond

• be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

• react to a stimulus or command

• approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap

• a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

• a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• the act of blocking

• termination of operations

• terminate debate by calling for a vote

• a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

• (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

• a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a formal public statement

• a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

• the muscle tone of healthy tissue

• the trait of being resolute

• the property of being unyielding to the touch

• the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place

• the trait of being resolute

• analysis into clear-cut components

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• something that results

• the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause

• issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end

• produce as a result or residue

• come about or follow as a consequence

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• a method for solving a problem

• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

• the successful action of solving a problem