Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To make a decision or selection; to decide. 2 To confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to.
WordNet
v. become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon" [syn: fixate]
Usage examples of "settle on".
I recounted at length, in the Indian tongue, the history of our attempt to settle on Tupuai, and endqd by expressing some sympathy with the people of that island, who, after all, had done no more than repel what they considered an invasion of their home.
He can write to you and settle on what he might owe you, after I get him aboard that flyer and on his way--out of our hair.
It took more than half an hour to settle on a suitable landing-place.
Codep had erected a memorialo the race there, and had forbidden anyone to settle on the world whose inhabitants had been accidentally destroyed.
Ayyar watched the off-worlder stride confidently to the robot and put out a hand to settle on its hunched shoulder.
She tensed and shivered again, which he took as encouragement, even though he was sure, as the coat slid a few inches from his shoulder, that he felt a snowflake settle on his bare back.
Then, from nowhere, a kind of despair seemed to settle on him, and he felt lonely and used and cheated, and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim, black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers.