Settle
['set(ə)l] or ['sɛtl]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Trent--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Checker: Newman
Definition
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).
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Examples
- Have you lately come to settle in this neighbourhood, or do you own to another neighbourhood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There I parted from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and respectable life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Do--now pray do let us settle this little difference of ours by word of mouth, if we can! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I watched them settle on the ceiling. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I believe the ensilage would be better without any tramping and packing if we could only get it to settle uniformly without. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then one sort of men began to settle down, and another sort became more distinctly nomadic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I had settled things with father and mother. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Letterblair tells me the financial question has been settled-- Oh, yes, she said indifferently. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Just step there with me,' said Roker, taking up his hat with great alacrity; 'the matter's settled in five minutes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was not all settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express was sent off to Longbourn. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But the government of King William was not then fully settled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That will be the best way of settling them. Plato. The Republic.
- There was no such settling down behind a final frontier on the part of the Chinese as we see in the case of the Romans at the Rhine and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mrs Lammle, settling into her defiant manner, pushed her plate away, looked at her husband, and laughed; but by no means gaily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was like strange moths, very soft and silent, settling on her from the darkness of her soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It does seem a very preposterous way of settling a dispute. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You'll make money of your good looks, and of the money Mrs Boffin and me will have the pleasure of settling upon you, and you'll live and die rich. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There were two wooden settles by the fire, one on either side of it, with a corresponding table before each. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the gas holder is full it is buoyed up by the lighter gas, and occupies an elevated position, and as its supply is used up, the gas holder settles down into the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The remainder of the sugar settles at the bottom of the vessel, and cannot be dissolved by any amount of stirring. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Wild yeast settles on the skin of grapes and apples, but since it does not have access to the fruit juices within, it remains inactive very much as a seed does before it is planted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Facing the fire between the settles, a sofa, a footstool, and a little table, formed a centrepiece devoted to Mrs Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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