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SETTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long wooden bench with a back
Synonyms:
settee; settle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("settle" is a kind of...):
bench (a long seat for more than one person)
Derivation:
settle (come to rest)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they settle ... he / she / it settles
Past simple: settled
Past participle: settled
-ing form: settling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come as if by falling
Example:
Silence fell
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
Verb group:
fall (go as if by falling)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Take up residence and become established
Example:
The immigrants settled in the Midwest
Synonyms:
locate; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
"Settle" entails doing...:
move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
colonise; colonize (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))
resettle (settle in a new place)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settlement (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies)
settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
settlement (an area where a group of families live together)
settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Form a community
Example:
The Swedes settled in Minnesota
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
"Settle" entails doing...:
migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
homestead (settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
settlement (an area where a group of families live together)
settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
Example:
He finally settled down
Synonyms:
root; settle; settle down; steady down; take root
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
stabilise; stabilize (become stable or more stable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
roost (settle down or stay, as if on a roost)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
Example:
let's finalize the proposal
Synonyms:
finalise; finalize; nail down; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Also:
settle on (become fixed (on))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Establish or develop as a residence
Example:
This land was settled by Germans
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
settlement (an area where a group of families live together)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
Example:
Her mood settled into lethargy
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
become; get; go (enter or assume a certain state or condition)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 8
Meaning:
Bring to an end; settle conclusively
Example:
The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance
Synonyms:
adjudicate; decide; resolve; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
judge (determine the result of (a competition))
adjust (decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
settler (a negotiator who settles disputes)
settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Settle conclusively; come to terms
Example:
We finally settled the argument
Synonyms:
determine; settle; square off; square up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
conclude; resolve (reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
clear; solve (settle, as of a debt)
concert (settle by agreement)
clinch (settle conclusively)
compromise (settle by concession)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)
Sense 10
Meaning:
End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
Example:
The two parties finally settled
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settlement (something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making)
settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Come to terms
Example:
After some discussion we finally made up
Synonyms:
conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
make peace (end hostilities)
appease; propitiate (make peace with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 12
Meaning:
Accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
Example:
We settled for a lower price
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
accept; consent; go for (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settlement (termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
Example:
I finally settled with my old enemy
Synonyms:
get back; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 14
Meaning:
Arrange or fix in the desired order
Example:
She settled the teacart
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 15
Meaning:
Fix firmly
Example:
He ensconced himself in the chair
Synonyms:
ensconce; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 16
Meaning:
Sink down or precipitate
Example:
the mud subsides when the waters become calm
Synonyms:
settle; subside
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
go down; go under; settle; sink (go under)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
settling (a gradual sinking to a lower level)
settlings (sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
sink (cause to sink)
Verb group:
settle (become clear by the sinking of particles)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
settlings (sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid)
Sense 18
Meaning:
Become clear by the sinking of particles
Example:
the liquid gradually settled
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
settle (cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 19
Meaning:
Come to rest
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
halt; stop (come to a halt, stop moving)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settle (a long wooden bench with a back)
Sense 20
Meaning:
Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
Example:
dust settled on the roofs
Synonyms:
settle; settle down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
sediment (settle as sediment)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 21
Meaning:
Go under
Example:
The raft sank and its occupants drowned
Synonyms:
go down; go under; settle; sink
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Verb group:
sink (cause to sink)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
settle; subside (sink down or precipitate)
founder (sink below the surface)
submerge; submerse (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 22
Meaning:
Dispose of; make a financial settlement
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "settle" is one way to...):
arrange; fix up (make arrangements for)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle"):
prorate (make a proportional settlement or distribution)
pay (discharge or settle)
square (pay someone and settle a debt)
compensate; make up; pay; pay off (do or give something to somebody in return)
liquidate (settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off)
clean up (dispose of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
settlement (termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities)
Context examples:
From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The distance red blood cells travel in one hour in a sample of blood as they settle to the bottom of a test tube.
(Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, NCI Dictionary)
The distance (e.g. millimeters) that red blood cells settle in unclotted blood over a specified unit of time (e.g. one hour).
(Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is not a settled thing, ma'am, yet.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A lot of people have accounts to settle with him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I said the dog doesn't go, and that settles it. I don't believe he's your dog. You may have seen him sometime. You may even sometime have driven him for his owner.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"If only you had settled down to some position and attempted to make something of yourself," she wrote.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It took some time for the researchers to settle on silicon as their material of choice, as there are other materials that could potentially work.
(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then the bird came flying towards the house and settled on the roof.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
