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Settle Meaning in Spanish |
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banco
, escaño
, colocar
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Settle
- (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
- (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A seat of any kind.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- (v. i.) To fix ones residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
- (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
- (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
Synonyms:
Adjudicate, Conciliate, Decide, Descend, Determine, Ensconce, Fall, Halt, Locate, Reconcile, Resolve, Root, Settee, Sink, Subside,
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• Settlement
- (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
- (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
- (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
- (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
- (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
- (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
- (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
- (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
- (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
- (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
- (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
Synonyms:
Colonization, Colony, Liquidation, Resolution, Village,
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• Settler
- (n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
- (n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
- (n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- (n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
Synonyms:
Colonist,
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