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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#m1)

2) To dissolve something is to make it do this, often by stirring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#m2)

3) To dissolve a group or agreement is to end it officially. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#m3)

4) To dissolve into tears or laughter is to start crying or laughing uncontrollably. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x1)
- Salt dissolves in water, but sand does not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x2)
- Stir the water to make the powder dissolve faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x3)
- The tablet dissolved in the glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x4)
- We got the salt back by evaporating the dissolved solution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x5)
- She dissolved into giggles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/4/)
- [When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/5/)
- [A dissolved solid can be got back by letting the water evaporate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/6/)
- [Hot water dissolves sugar faster and can hold more of it than cold water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/7/)
- [Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dissolve» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissolve/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.