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settle

settle (third-person singular simple present settles, present participle settling, simple past and past participle settled)

1. (transitive) 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.)
   • 1700, Ovid, Metamorphoses, translation of original by John Dryden:

     The father thought the time drew on Of settling in the world his only son.

2. (transitive, obsolete, US) 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.
3. (transitive) 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. --George Chapman.
   • Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. -- John Bunyan.
4. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty 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. --Jonathan Swift.
8. (transitive) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
9. (transitive, archaic) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
10. (transitive, colloquial) To pay; as, to settle a bill. --Abbott.
11. (transitive) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
12. (intransitive) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish ones 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. --John Arbuthnot.
13. (intransitive) To fix ones residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
14. (intransitive) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
    • As people marry now and settle. --Matthew Prior.
15. (intransitive) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
16. (intransitive) 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.
17. (intransitive) 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. --Joseph Addison.
18. (intransitive) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
19. (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
20. (intransitive) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
    • Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him. --Shakespeare
21. (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
22. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.
    • He sighs with most success that settles well. -- Samuel Garth.

settle (plural settles)

1. (archaic) A seat of any kind.
2. A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen.
3. (obsolete) 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.

Definizione dizionario settle

	arrangiarsi
	To bring to an agreement.

abbassarsi

acquietare

adattare

aggiustare

appianare

assegnare

assestare

assettare

attestarsi

calmarsi

cassapanca

causare

colonizzare

comporre

concordare

condurre

decidere

definire

determinare

fare

finire

fissare

guidare

liquidare

piazzare

regolare

risolvere

saldare

sistemare

stabilire

stabilirsi

tranquillizzarsi

Altri significati:

(transitive) 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.

(intransitive) 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.

To come to an agreement or settlement of a dispute or argument, to attemt to sort something out between parties or to settle a case, to finish animosities.

(intransitive) To become calm; to cease from agitation.

(transitive) 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.

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

(transitive, colloquial) To pay; as, to settle a bill. --Abbott.

to fix one's residence

(archaic) A seat of any kind.

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

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

(intransitive) 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.

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

(intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.

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

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

to adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify

To apply a payment or credit to an invoice; or, to transfer funds to complete a transaction.

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

settle (a matter)

(transitive) 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.

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

(intransitive) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.

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

(transitive, obsolete, US) 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.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty 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.

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

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

A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen.