A seat of any kind.

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

A long wooden bench with high back and solid arms. Commonly features drawers or a hinged seat covering a storage space.

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

Resolving a debt or claim.

Resolving a legal dispute, often using the services of attorneys but not relying on a final court judgement for the resolution.

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 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.

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

A command and a part of the race. This tells the rowers that the crew is going to bring the stroke rate down for the body of the race, but still maintain the same pressure. This is usually the middle of the race.

To lower; as, SETTLE THE TOP-SAIL HALYARDS, lower them.

go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

To make a jointure for a wife.

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 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 stay put, perhaps temporarily; to give up the road, even for a moment. See also city, home.

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 pregnant or conceive.

form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"

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To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

The point in the process where the sludge is allowed to drift to the bottom of the basin and separate from the liquid. There is no mixing or aeration during settle.

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

come to rest

come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

The last price paid for a commodity on any trading day. The exchange clearinghouse determines a firm's net gains or losses, margin requirements, and the next day's price limits, based on each futures and options contract settlement price. If there is a closing range of prices, the settlement price is determined by averaging those prices. Also referred to as settlemeny price or closing price.

official price prevailing at the end of a trading session

to go and live somewhere

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dispose of; make a financial settlement

the transfer of funds from the cardholders financial institution to the University's financial institution.

Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.

to pay a debt or bill or account.

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

To pay a debt or complete a transaction.

To complete a securities transaction between broker & customer.

Reach an agreement with a lender to repay only part of the original debt

See settlement