Settle

['set(ə)l] or ['sɛtl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a long wooden bench with a back.

(verb.) take up residence and become established; 'The immigrants settled in the Midwest'.

(verb.) form a community; 'The Swedes settled in Minnesota'.

(verb.) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; 'He finally settled down'.

(verb.) establish or develop as a residence; 'He settled the farm 200 years ago'; 'This land was settled by Germans'.

(verb.) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; 'The roar settled to a thunder'; 'The wind settled in the West'; 'it is settling to rain'; 'A cough settled in her chest'; 'Her mood settled into lethargy'.

(verb.) settle conclusively; come to terms; 'We finally settled the argument'.

(verb.) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; 'The two parties finally settled'.

(verb.) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction; 'We settled for a lower price'.

(verb.) arrange or fix in the desired order; 'She settled the teacart'.

(verb.) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids).

(verb.) become clear by the sinking of particles; 'the liquid gradually settled'.

(verb.) come to rest.

(verb.) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; 'dust settled on the roofs'.

(verb.) dispose of; make a financial settlement.

(verb.) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; 'I finally settled with my old enemy'.

錄入:特伦特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A seat of any kind.

(n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.

(n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

(n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.

(n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.

(n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.

(n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.

(n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.

(n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.

(n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.

(n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.

(n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

(n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.

(n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.

(v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.

(v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

(v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.

(v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

(v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.

(v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.

(v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

(v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

(v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.

(v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.

(v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

乔整理

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Fix, establish, institute, ordain, appoint, confirm, make permanent.[2]. Decide, determine, make clear, free from doubt.[3]. Adjust, reconcile, regulate, arrange, make up.[4]. Compress, make close or compact.[5]. Colonize, people, plant, found.[6]. Liquidate, pay, discharge, close up.[7]. [U. S.] Ordain as pastor.[8]. Clarify, free from dregs or impurities.[9]. Compose, quiet, tranquillize, calm, pacify.

v. n. [1]. Subside, sink, fall.[2]. Rest, repose, be quiet, be tranquil, be composed.[3]. Dwell, abide, inhabit, reside, plant one's self, get a footing, get established, be stationary.[4]. Account, reckon, pay the bill, square accounts, strike a balance, quit scores, satisfy all demands, PAY UP.

艾米編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Fix, establish, regulate, arrange, compose, adjust, determine, decide,adjudicate, quiet, allay, still, Milk, fall, subside, lower, calm, acquiesce,abate, agree

ANT:Remove, disestablish, misregulate, derange, discompose, aggravate, disorder,disturb, confuse, misdetermine, misarrange, misplace, unsettle, rise, ascend,move, disagree, increase, heighten

編輯:纽曼

解釋/意思:

n. a long high-backed bench for sitting on: (B.) also a platform lower than another part.—n. Sett′le-bed a bed which is folded or shut up so as to form a seat by day.

v.t. to decide conclude: to fix appoint: regulate: to pay balance: to restore to good order.—v.i. to adjust differences or accounts: to meet one's pecuniary obligations fully.

v.t. to set or place in a fixed state: to fix: to establish in a situation or business: to render quiet clear &c.: to decide: to free from uncertainty: to quiet: to compose: to fix by gift or legal act: to adjust: to liquidate or pay: to colonise.—v.i. to become fixed or stationary: to fix one's residence or habits of life (often with down): to grow calm or clear: to sink by its own weight: to sink to the bottom: to cease from agitation.—adj. Sett′led fixed firmly seated or decided: quiet sober.—ns. Sett′ledness; Sett′lement act of settling: state of being settled: payment: arrangement: a colony newly settled: a subsidence or sinking of a wall &c.: a sum newly settled on a woman at her marriage; Sett′ler one who settles: a colonist; Sett′ling the act of making a settlement: the act of subsiding: the adjustment of differences: sediment: dregs; Sett′ling-day a date fixed by the Stock Exchange for the completion of transactions—in consols once a month; in all other stocks twice a month each settlement occupying three days (contango-day name-day and pay-day).

布丽奇特編輯