dissolve

«dissolve» in Mova's school dictionary: When a solid dissolves in a liquid, it mixes in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (dissolve, dissolves, dissolved, dissolving)

meaning for a pupil

1) When a solid dissolves in a liquid, it mixes in completely so you cannot see it any more, like sugar in tea. tree →

2) To dissolve something is to make it do this, often by stirring. tree →

3) To dissolve a group or agreement is to end it officially. tree →

4) To dissolve into tears or laughter is to start crying or laughing uncontrollably. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, a substance that dissolves is soluble (salt, sugar); one that does not is insoluble (sand, chalk). The mixture made is a solution. Warm water and stirring make things dissolve faster. You can get a dissolved solid back by evaporating the water, but not by filtering. Phrases: dissolve in water, soluble and insoluble, dissolve into tears, dissolved salt.

examples

• Sugar dissolves in hot tea. tree →
• Salt dissolves in water, but sand does not. tree →
• Stir the water to make the powder dissolve faster. tree →
• The tablet dissolved in the glass. tree →
• We got the salt back by evaporating the dissolved solution. tree →
• She dissolved into giggles. tree →
• She cast one more lingering, half-fainting glance at the prince, and then threw herself from the ship into the sea, and thought her body was dissolving into foam. tree →

note

Dissolving is not the same as melting: melting needs heat and only one substance (ice to water); dissolving needs a liquid to mix into. A dissolved solid is still there — the mass of the solution equals the water plus the solid.

In the corpora

• Heat, stirring and small grains all make dissolving faster, which is why loose sugar vanishes before a sugar cube does.
• When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste.
• A dissolved solid can be got back by letting the water evaporate.
• Hot water dissolves sugar faster and can hold more of it than cold water.
• Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dissolve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.