Definition of Settle

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Settle

A seat of any kind.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To become calm; to cease from agitation.

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

To make a jointure for a wife.

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Settle Quotations

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin

Settle Translations

settle in Dutch is afhandelen, afdoen
settle in German is sich niederlassen, abmachen, Bank
settle in Italian is fissare, liquidare
settle in Latin is constituo, consido, exigo, certo, subsido, condico
settle in Spanish is domiciliar, solventar

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