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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
settle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decide/settle sb’s/sth’s fate
▪ The meeting will decide the fate of the factory.
▪ The court’s decision settled Anderson’s fate.
decide/settle/resolve an issue (=solve it)
▪ The issue was settled after some tough negotiations.
▪ No deadline has been set to resolve the issue.
repay/settle a debtformal (= pay the money back)
▪ He was hoping he would soon have enough money to settle his debts.
resolve/settle a disagreement (=find a way to make people agree)
▪ Negotiations failed to resolve the disagreements.
resolve/settle a dispute (=end it)
▪ It is hoped that the dispute can be resolved peacefully.
settle a bill (=pay it)
▪ She went down to the lobby to settle the bill for their rooms.
settle a case (=end it finally)
▪ He paid a $15,000 fine to settle the case.
settle a grievance (=solve one)
▪ The union decided to settle its grievance in the law courts.
settle a lawsuit (=to reach an agreement that stops a lawsuit)
▪ I would prefer to settle the lawsuit out of court.
settle for second best
▪ I’m not going to settle for second best.
settle sb's stomach (=to stop it feeling uncomfortable)
▪ The doctor gave me some tablets to settle my stomach.
settle sth out of court (=reach an agreement without using a court)
▪ The matter was finally settled out of court.
settle...old scores
▪ Jack came back after five years to settle some old scores.
settle/resolve the matter (=decide something)
▪ They are meeting tonight to settle the matter.
settle/soothe sb's nerves (=make someone feel less worried or nervous)
▪ She hoped that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves.
slip/fall/settle into a routine (=get into a routine without making any difficulty)
▪ The team slipped quickly into a routine.
snow settles (=stays on the ground)
▪ The snow was beginning to settle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
▪ The shares opened at 76p and quickly soared to 96p before settling back to 81p.
▪ With his weight settled back on the bed, Primo felt something in his back pocket.
▪ In just a week or so, Antoinette wrote to Soeur Dosithée: she's settled back in very well.
▪ When he took his hands away she settled back on the sheets, still clutching the spread.
▪ That done he settled back, letting the young Prince speak.
▪ At that time, diesel prices in California spiked briefly, but settled back down by the end of that year.
▪ As she settled back down it continued to cook and burst into flames.
▪ Oil prices then settled back to $ 17. 15 per barrel.
down
▪ Deep down we were full of emotion, but there was little sign of it as we settled down to our task.
▪ Afterward, you settle down to an evening of state-of-the-art interactive entertainment.
▪ I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.
▪ I wanted to make sure I settled down and not rush through things.
▪ In most cases the bulge settles down, as long as you have sufficient horizontal rest and take good care of your back.
▪ But like a lot of his rowdy friends, he is settling down.
▪ As I forlornly stood it upright on the table, Tam settled down opposite me.
▪ Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so, one morning, I settled down to make some enquiries.
finally
▪ I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.
▪ I finally settled on the idea of studying pharmacy.
▪ But Geron and the Roslin scientists could at last assure investors that the patent question was finally settled.
▪ Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party.
▪ The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision.
▪ The seismic jolt to Los Angeles home values appears to have finally settled down, way down.
▪ Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.
▪ He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
in
▪ We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable.
▪ For a long time Alvin refused to go upstairs to the little room where the company had settled in.
▪ North west winds become sporadic, except in Sardinia, where the Mistral settles in.
▪ Jody is pacing, arms crossed tightly over her chest, waiting for everyone to settle in.
▪ The puppy will then settle in with relatively little difficulty as a member of the family.
▪ Iris will be grateful I got you settled in.
▪ He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve, who had promised to help him settle in.
▪ It was certainly a strange quarter to have settled in.
on
▪ I settled on one of my favourites-a simple black dress.
▪ The meditation program he settled on was an Eastern breath-counting exercise.
▪ She settled on to a purple, cotton-covered couch.
▪ Newsroom and management hopes have settled on Ann-Eve Pedersen, currently an assistant city editor.
▪ If you really can't decide, settle on about five minutes.
▪ But Clinton settled on Gore, the statesmanlike senator from Tennessee.
▪ He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
▪ Acting and horses were the only things I had settled on.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Schellenberg settled the account and they went outside.
▪ It will be an uneasy settling of accounts.
▪ The line through 501 indicates that Mr R. James departed after lunch settling his account of £80.15 by Access credit card.
▪ I merely called to settle Elise's account.
▪ A note on discount Cash discounts A supplier may offer a cash discount to a retailer who settles his account promptly.
▪ Anyone settling their account within twelve months had half the commission returned.
affair
▪ It aims to treat all taxpayers with equal fairness and to settle their tax affairs impartially.
▪ On Dec. 4 King Bhumibol made a highly unusual intervention and called on the two sides to settle the affair peacefully.
argument
▪ Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter.
▪ I hope that all of us will take a lesson from it, to settle our arguments as quick as we can.
▪ Interviewer: That would settle the arguments?
▪ In controversy with his opponents, he regularly uses a quotation from the Old Testament to settle the argument.
▪ The reference concerned a fight in the street between two youths to settle an argument.
bill
▪ Please that this letter as confirmation that Oxford University Press will be settling their bills for room and breakfast.
▪ It turned out he wanted me to settle my bill.
▪ But then there was nothing left to pay the drivers or to settle the mounting bills.
▪ But carrying large amounts of foreign currency to settle the bills is anything but a joy.
▪ When I got back he was at the cashier's desk settling the bill.
▪ I settled the bill - a pretty useful one, what with the line of brandies I had moodily consumed.
▪ You pick up your gear and you settle your bill.
▪ He settles all their Mess bills and buys them lavish presents.
case
▪ Last year the Department of the Environment was brought in to settle the case.
▪ His epileptic client eventually settled his case against the company for a confidential amount.
▪ However, he settled the case for an undisclosed sum in 1992.
▪ The land claims commission has settled more than 11,000 cases by mutual agreement on compensation.
▪ Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.
▪ The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court.
▪ The tobacco industry has never paid damages or settled a liability case.
chair
▪ She settled him in his chair, and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little.
▪ Stillman settled slowly into his chair and at last turned his attention to Quinn.
▪ When they came back, Nick settled into his chair and took up his book.
▪ As soon as he settles into his chair, he returns all telephone calls.
▪ With a little sigh, Caroline settled into a chair opposite and put her head back.
▪ The room remained quiet as he settled into his chair, adjusted his robes and pulled the microphone close.
▪ The first inalienable right of a trainee was to dawdle and amuse himself before he settled into his chair for the morning.
▪ I settled into my chair and tried to sleep.
claim
▪ In 1998 the federal government settled 220 claims involving priests and nuns who had been convicted of criminal abuse.
▪ It had set aside $ 24 million to settle claims by former managers that it had failed to pay required overtime.
▪ If the courts were to try to settle each claim on a case-by-case basis, it could take for ever.
▪ He approached the conference sponsors with a proposition: He would settle his claim without a suit for twenty-six thousand dollars.
▪ In all, London Underground has settled 60 out of 80 claims arising out of the disaster, to the tune of £2m.
▪ But they face the sale of most of the rest of their property in order to settle creditors' claims.
▪ Strenuous efforts were made last weekend to settle the outstanding claim of the town of Seveso itself.
court
▪ Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court.
▪ Others have been settled out of court.
▪ In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
▪ The suit was settled out of court.
▪ The two sides announced that they had settled out of court.
▪ Riney countersued her for slander, and the two settled out of court.
debt
▪ I'd like to whisk her away on my white charger, but I have to settle my debts first.
▪ Another gives generously yet never settles his debts.
▪ Tam again settled his debts, and again found himself with virtually nothing left.
▪ The settling of Tam's debts turned out to be less difficult than I had expected.
▪ It's for him to come down here and settle his debts, like everybody else in the valley.
▪ On his return, he borrowed money from Harriet to settle debts from his continental fling.
difference
▪ Having settled her differences, she gave my hand a tentative lick.
▪ Clearly, however, we are never going to settle our religious differences with respect to education through the political process.
▪ It is that they are not talking because they see no way to settle their differences.
▪ No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
▪ But Lissovsky's biggest problem is to persuade the gangsters who frequent the club to settle their differences elsewhere.
▪ We have to settle our differences and come together as one.
▪ The warring sides finally came face-to-face at a meeting designed to help them settle their differences.
▪ Finding nonviolent ways of settling differences between diverse groups of interests is the essence of democracy.
dispute
▪ Pragmatism is essentially a method of settling philosophical disputes by tracing their practical consequences.
▪ The army supervised the elections of 1867 and 1868 and was called in from time to time thereafter to settle scattered disputes.
▪ My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute.
▪ Mercy and others who track violence see two disturbing trends, also reflected locally: Guns increasingly are used to settle disputes.
▪ We will consult on a Lay Adjudicators scheme to make it easier for citizens to settle disputes with service providers.
▪ The figures alone, however, are unlikely to settle the ongoing disputes and passions around immigration.
▪ Both sides are under mounting public pressure to settle the three-week dispute.
▪ The companies said they would not pay the fines as long as talks aimed at settling the dispute continued.
dust
▪ Pleased with the way dust has settled on the sieves.
▪ As the dust settles, significant advances can be seen in three areas.
▪ The car sits there while the dust settles, shimmering in the sun.
▪ The soil where the bombs fell had been pulverised into black dust that had settled on everything.
▪ They waited for the dust to settle, then rolled down the windows.
▪ When the dust settles, we are the enforcers, the last line of law.
▪ As the dust settles a chart in the back of the room catches my eye.
family
▪ The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.
▪ There are innumerable girls from Shishu Bhawans who are now well settled, with happy families of their own.
▪ But Familymakers believes with proper emotional support most of them could and should settle into a new family.
▪ Younger black families were moving up from Watts and settling by working-class white families newly arrived from the South and the Midwest.
▪ In her search for herself, she had settled on these two family figures to pattern herself after.
▪ A N Wilson is settling for the Royal Family.
▪ Pat had returned to London two years earlier, unable to settle with her genteel family in Chard.
issue
▪ Difficult as it may be, he should attempt to settle more delicate issues.
▪ Naturally, a committee was formed to settle the issue.
▪ Next month's High Court judgement may settle the issue one way or the other.
▪ Hughes's resignation appears to settle that issue.
▪ However, the remedy did not settle the issue, and at the 1899 Brno Congress it was again in hot dispute.
▪ Abrams and his co-researchers, veterans of dozens of successful studies, pushed hard to settle the issue.
▪ What settled the issue was the rise of the pomeshchiks.
▪ The Maryland decision, however, did not settle the issue.
lawsuit
▪ BJohnson-Meszoras said that if the federal government finalizes its approval, settling her clients' lawsuit will become more difficult.
▪ Wright State has settled a lawsuit filed by Ralph Underhill agreeing to pay the former basketball coach about $ 125, 000.
▪ Meanwhile Microsoft settled one anti-trust lawsuit with an estimated payment to the software company Caldera of $ 275m.
▪ Stevens International Inc. said it agreed in principle to settle a class-action shareholder lawsuit against it.
matter
▪ The incentive to settle and clear the matter up quickly is significant.
▪ The state steadfastly refused to settle this matter at any time.
▪ But one crucial detail settles the matter.
▪ Once that was settled, matters took a turn toward the peculiar.
▪ Such excellent timing does not settle the matter, however.
▪ It was clear to him now that any hope of settling the longitude matter lay in the stars.
▪ Where policy has to be settled over such matters as public health or education, statistical and factual material is needed.
▪ Let us settle these delicate matters between ourselves.
question
▪ It remained for one of the great investigators of the Laboulbeniales to settle the question of their true affinities.
▪ Brains, property and character of the Negro will settle the question of civil rights.
▪ Indeed, it is the area of pricing which may settle the question of which to buy.
▪ The first question sounds like a properly scientific one; and indeed Dawkins implies that it is a settled scientific question.
▪ What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another.
▪ But settling questions of language use is the job of pragmatics-the study of the use of language in context.
▪ Computer-assisted studies of style have often attempted to settle questions of chronology in the work of authors whose works are undated.
▪ That will settle any question about my tumorigenesis theory.
score
▪ This was my charge, and I have a score to settle.
▪ Old resentments were now being given scope; scores were being settled.
▪ She was riding with a score to settle.
▪ The invitations went out regularly every week; now the score was never settled.
▪ She had a score to settle, I grant her that.
▪ On 18 January 1985 there were plenty of old scores to settle.
▪ Second, I have a score to settle with World Security.
▪ Morrissey had another score to settle.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The flies are allowed to settle on the surface and are left to their own devices.
▪ The remaining fragments are allowed to settle to the bottom and then siphoned out.
▪ The solution is then returned to the original temperature and the precipitate which reforms is allowed to settle and then separated.
▪ However, wait a while you must, to allow the dust to settle.
▪ Miserably she allowed him to settle her in the taxi.
▪ It is always a good idea to keep cakes for at least a day before cutting them to allow the contents to settle.
▪ It also allowed the rocket to settle under the stresses produced by the mass of propellant.
▪ She wouldn't do it at the time, because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down.
begin
▪ Slowly dusk began to settle into darkness.
▪ Other walls began to settle too.
▪ Dusk broods, begins to settle but here, up high, a lake of last light trembles round her.
▪ Lore will never forget her first meeting with Miss Harder: After a few months the three girls began to settle down.
▪ As you know, blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around.
▪ The pavement was crowded and people had the cheerful look that comes when Spring begins to settle in.
▪ Then his own wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood, and he began to settle down again.
▪ After tea, Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury, the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord's.
help
▪ Occasionally - leaving any ethical questions aside - taped evidence can help to settle a point in dispute.
▪ He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve, who had promised to help him settle in.
▪ The warring sides finally came face-to-face at a meeting designed to help them settle their differences.
▪ So Grandma went home, my parents making the journey to help her to settle in.
▪ The government found it very difficult to persuade communities to help settle the Palatines.
▪ Emilio took some time off to help them settle in.
▪ The use of plants is recommended as they help settle the catfish down and provide spawning sites.
▪ Sometimes the wasp may even insert a small twig into the soil and jiggle it about to help settle the material.
seem
▪ Far from leaping from his chair and seizing Pearce by the throat, a curious fatigue seemed to have settled in his bones.
▪ Congress now seems inclined to settle temporarily for a catch-all budget measure that would freeze federal spending at current levels.
▪ Then, just when it seemed to have settled, it made a sharp sideways movement, tugging against the halter.
▪ As the hour wore on, a kind of trance seemed to settle over the action.
▪ She reached out to touch the surface, aware of a chill that seemed to have settled around her.
▪ By 1920 it was 10 per cent, and it seems to have settled at about this figure.
▪ The minutes ticked by, and the house seemed to settle for sleep.
▪ He seems to have settled in my San Francisco neighborhood.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let the dust settle/wait for the dust to settle
pay/settle an old score
▪ Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
▪ There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
▪ With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
settle a score
▪ She's got a few old scores to settle with her former friend.
▪ Stanford settled an old score Friday by defeating Siena 94-72.
▪ Boudjema believes that the opposition parties are settling a score with the Socialist government and using the schoolgirls as a scapegoat.
▪ Schiavo certainly deserves no credit for scaring people needlessly just to settle a score.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A look of fury settled on his face.
▪ After her husband's death, Jackie went to the city to settle her husband's affairs.
▪ Historians are unsure when the territory was first settled.
▪ I settled the bill and left the restaurant.
▪ In the end we settled the deal on very favorable terms.
▪ Many Jewish immigrants settled in the Lower East Side.
▪ Nothing is settled yet.
▪ Please settle this account within two weeks.
▪ She settled herself by an oak tree on a hill overlooking the town.
▪ So that settles it. We'll pay you half the purchase price now, and the rest over two years.
▪ The existing chimney's foundation has settled and needs to be replaced.
▪ The family settled in a small Nevada town where they opened a store.
▪ We lived in Thailand, then Singapore, and finally settled in Hong Kong.
▪ We talked to the carpenter to settle plans for the expansion of the restaurant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before settling on a mandatory-guideline system, Congress considered other competing proposals for sentencing reform.
▪ Blue resigns himself to a long wait and then settles down with his newspapers and magazines.
▪ However, he settled down again and, with his assistant Brunskill, continued to rule the gallows.
▪ I ask the House to settle down and listen to the questions.
▪ Last year the Department of the Environment was brought in to settle the case.
▪ Once the question of the location of the state leper home was settled, the disease ceased to make headlines.
▪ The players need to have a chance to settle down.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Settle

Settle \Set"tle\, n. [OE. setel, setil, a seat, AS. setl: akin to OHG. sezzal, G. sessel, Goth. sitls, and E. sit.

  1. A seat of any kind. [Obs.] ``Upon the settle of his majesty''
    --Hampole.

  2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.

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

    And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
    --Ezek. xliii. 1

  4. Settle bed, a bed convertible into a seat. [Eng.]

Settle

Settle \Set"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Settled; p. pr. & vb. n. Settling.] [OE. setlen, AS. setlan. [root]154. See Settle, n. In senses 7, 8, and 9 perhaps confused with OE. sahtlen to reconcile, AS. sahtlian, fr. saht reconciliation, sacon to contend, dispute. Cf. Sake.]

  1. 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.

    And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed.
    --2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.)

    The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son.
    --Dryden.

  2. 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. [U. S.]

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

    God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.
    --Chapman.

    Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.
    --Bunyan.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

    It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.
    --Swift.

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

  9. To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

  10. Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill. [Colloq.]
    --Abbott.

  11. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620. To settle on or To settle upon,

    1. to confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to. ``I . . . have settled upon him a good annuity.''
      --Addison.

    2. to choose; to decide on; -- sometimes with the implication that the choice is not ideal, but the best available.

      To settle the land (Naut.), to cause it to sink, or appear lower, by receding from it.

      Syn: To fix; establish; regulate; arrange; compose; adjust; determine; decide.

Settle

Settle \Set"tle\, v. i.

  1. 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.

    The wind came about and settled in the west.
    --Bacon.

    Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.
    --Arbuthnot.

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

  3. To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.

    As people marry now and settle.
    --Prior.

  4. To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

  5. 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.

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

    A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.
    --Addison.

  7. To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

  8. To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

  9. To become calm; to cease from agitation.

    Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him.
    --Shak.

  10. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.

  11. To make a jointure for a wife.

    He sighs with most success that settles well.
    --Garth.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
settle

"long bench," 1550s, from Middle English setle "a seat," from Old English setl "a seat, stall; position, abode; setting of a heavenly body," related to sittan "to sit," from Proto-Germanic *setla- (cognates: Middle Low German, Middle Dutch setel, Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Gothic sitls), from PIE *sedla- (cognates: Latin sella "seat, chair," Old Church Slavonic sedlo "saddle," Old English sadol "saddle"), from root *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

settle

"come to rest," Old English setlan "cause to sit, place, put," from setl "a seat" (see settle (n.)). Related: Settling. Compare German siedeln "to settle, colonize." \n

\nFrom c.1300 of birds, etc., "to alight." From early 14c. as "sink down, descend; cave in." Early 15c. in reference to suspended particles in a liquid. Sense of "establish a permanent residence" first recorded 1620s; that of "decide" is 1620s. Meaning "secure title to by deed" is from 1660s.\n

\nMeaning "reconcile" (a quarrel, differences, etc.) perhaps is influenced by Middle English sahtlen "to reconcile," from Old English saht "reconciliation," from Old Norse satt "reconciliation." To settle down "become content" is from 1853; transitive sense from 1520s; as what married couples do in establishing domesticity, from 1718. To settle for "content oneself with" is from 1943.

Wiktionary
settle

n. 1 (context archaic English) A seat of any kind. 2 A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen. 3 (context obsolete English) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc. 2 (context transitive obsolete US English) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose. 4 (context transitive English) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink. 5 (context transitive English) To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition. 6 (context transitive English) To cause to sink; to lower. 7 (context transitive English) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty. 8 (context transitive English) To pacify (a discussion, quarrel). 9 (context transitive archaic English) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance. 10 (context transitive colloquial English) To pay. 11 (context transitive English) To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory). 12 (context intransitive English) To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself. 13 (context intransitive English) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home. 14 (context intransitive English) To become married, or a householder. 15 (context intransitive English) To be established in a profession or in employment. 16 (context intransitive English) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared. 17 (context intransitive English) To become clear after being unclear or vague. 18 (context intransitive English) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir. 19 (context intransitive English) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc. 20 (context intransitive English) To become calm; to stop being agitated. 21 (context intransitive English) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement. 22 (context intransitive obsolete English) To make a jointure for a wife.

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WordNet
settle

n. a long wooden bench with a back [syn: settee]

settle

  1. v. settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs" [syn: settle down]

  2. bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" [syn: decide, resolve, adjudicate]

  3. settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" [syn: square off, square up, determine]

  4. take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: locate]

  5. come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate]

  6. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: sink, go down, go under] [ant: float]

  7. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: root, take root, steady down, settle down]

  8. 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"

  9. establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"

  10. come to rest

  11. become clear by the sinking of particles; "the liquid gradually settled"

  12. arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart"

  13. accept despite complete satisfaction; "We settled for a lower price"

  14. end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled"

  15. dispose of; make a financial settlement

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

  17. sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm" [syn: subside]

  18. fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair" [syn: ensconce]

  19. get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy" [syn: get back]

  20. make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" [syn: finalize, finalise, nail down]

  21. form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"

  22. come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend]

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Wikipedia
Settle (furniture)

A settle is a wooden bench, usually with arms and a high back, long enough to accommodate three or four sitters.

Settle

Settle or SETTLE may refer to:

  • Settle, North Yorkshire, a town in England
  • Settle Rural District
  • Settle (furniture), a wooden bench
  • SETTLE, a constraint algorithm used in computational chemistry
  • Settling, a chemical process
  • Settler, a person who migrates to a new area and resides there
  • Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
Settle (band)

Settle is an indie rock band from Easton, Pennsylvania currently signed to Epitaph Records whose debut album, At Home We Are Tourists, was released May 19, 2009. The signing of Settle is part of Epitaph's efforts to expand its sound beyond its pop-punk roots.

Settle (Vera Blue song)

"Settle" is a song by Australian singer songwriter, Vera Blue and was released on 11 March 2016. and peaked at number 79 on the Australian ARIA Chart in April 2016.

A black and white music video was released on 3 March 2016.

Settle (album)

Settle is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Disclosure, released on 31 May 2013 by Island Records. Accompanied by the success of its lead single, " Latch", featuring Sam Smith, the album features collaborations with AlunaGeorge, Ed Macfarlane of Friendly Fires, Sasha Keable, Eliza Doolittle, Jamie Woon, Jessie Ware, and London Grammar, as an opus which equally combines the elements of production, vocality, and songwriting. A deluxe edition of the album contains four bonus tracks, including Disclosure's remix of Jessie Ware's song, " Running".

Settle received widespread critical praise and was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 44,633 copies in its first week. It was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 4 April 2014, signifying sales of over 300,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached number one on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart with 10,000 units sold after a promotional discount on Google Play Music. It has sold 165,000 copies in the United States as of September 2015.

A remix of the album, titled Settle: The Remixes, was released on 16 and 17 December 2013 in the United Kingdom and United States, respectively.

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Usage examples of "settle".

A shadow seemed to settle on his heart as he thought of the Aberrant lady they had met in Axekami.

Leaving the cripple ablaze, settling, and pouring volcanic black smoke from the flammable cargo, he swung around in a long approach to what looked like a big troop Carrier, by far the fattest target in sight.

Struan Callander, fourteen years old, was now aboard the Endymion to settle that debt of gratitude, though the sums of money were still outstanding.

Banish coming down hard on top of the girl with the baby and the gun and Abies falling forward from the act of Fagin being blown back off his feet and settling still on the ground.

Jasper, she ignited her thrusters and her stomach settled as acceleration gripped her.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.

Italy, and afterwards settled in England, where he met with the most favourable reception, and resided above half a century, universally admired for his stupendous genius in the sublime parts of musical composition.

And probably the empress herself might have seen less reason for her admonitions on the subject, had it not been for the circumstance, which was no doubt unfortunate, that the royal family at this time contained no member of a graver age and a settled respectability of character who might, by his example, have tempered the exuberance natural to the extreme youth of the sovereigns and their brothers.

In 1884, Paul decided to give up his adventurous life, and settle down.

The flow from tens of millions of toilets coursed through settling and aerating paddies the size of large farms.

Morris now began the walk aft along the sail to climb back up, but by this time the ship had settled into the water so that only the sail remained above the waves.

Through the windows opposite shone an afterglow sky of ochre and pale-green, and from somewhere just outside came the low cackle of birds settling to roost along a cornicemy-nahs or starlings.

Soho Greek, originally a native of Agios Georgios, who emigrated to London twenty years ago, made his pile as a restaurateur, and has now come back, as these folk do, and wants to settle at home.

Dorraine of Agora, a planet settled early in the human expansion to the stars, was taller than her husband.

Persons are deterred from settling in the neighborhood by the aguish character of the country.