Definition of Settle

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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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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

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

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

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
Joan of Arc

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