Crossword clues for settling
settling
- Go under
- Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- Establish or develop as a residence
- Come to rest
- Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- Become clear by the sinking of particles
- Of liquids
- No longer rash
- Resolving, as an argument
- Putting down roots
- Paying up
- Finishing a suit, in a way
- Alternative to going to court
- Accepting that one can't do better
- Getting to the bottom of things?
- Sink down or precipitate
- Come as if by falling
- Form a community
- Put into final form
- Put the last touches on
- Make final
- Accept despite complete satisfaction
- Fix firmly
- Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- Take up residence and become established
- Arrange or fix in the desired order
- A gradual sinking to a lower level
- Come to terms
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. 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.]
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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. 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.
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.
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.
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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. To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill. [Colloq.]
--Abbott.-
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,
to confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to. ``I . . . have settled upon him a good annuity.''
--Addison.-
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.
Settling \Set"tling\, n.
The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
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pl. That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
--Milton.Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc. 2 (context usually plural English) dregs; sediment. vb. (present participle of settle English)
WordNet
n. a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: subsiding, subsidence]
Wikipedia
Settling is the process by which particulates settle to the bottom of a liquid and form a sediment. Particles that experience a force, either due to gravity or due to centrifugal motion will tend to move in a uniform manner in the direction exerted by that force. For gravity settling, this means that the particles will tend to fall to the bottom of the vessel, forming a slurry at the vessel base.
Settling is an important operation in many applications, such as mining, wastewater treatment, biological science, space propellant reignition, and particle mechanics.
Usage examples of "settling".
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.
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.
The flow from tens of millions of toilets coursed through settling and aerating paddies the size of large farms.
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.
Persons are deterred from settling in the neighborhood by the aguish character of the country.
Settling beside him, Alec looked out at the wild beauty of the night and let out a happy sigh.
In the early part of this session of congress, the president announced that he was about to negotiate with the British government for finally settling the claims of the two countries to this territory.
Stroker called angrily from behind the bar, and Astel immediately got to her feet and moved behind the bar to start cleaning up and settling down matters for the night.
It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.
The leaves when bruised, if worn in the hat, or rubbed on the face, will prevent flies from settling on the person.
He buffed them gently and rubbed the rag over her, and she lifted her head and gave him another of those wavering, limpid gazes, before settling back down to sleep again.
There was a hydraulic whine and the Buick came out of its snout-up, tail-down posture, settling back on its whitewalls.
We can hardly fancy the Archbishop of Canterbury or York resigning his diocese and settling down quietly on the top of Scafell or Cader Idris to secure his eternal welfare.
Taylor and a majority of commissioners said settling the case now was cheaper than litigating it for years.
Coming around as Drock reached him, the Mask pumped bullets into his wild-eyed attacker, settling the Drock question permanently.