Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who or that which settles, in any sense of that word.
- noun plural Lees; dregs; sediment.
- noun Reconciliation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
- noun That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
- noun a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
settle . - noun usually plural
Dregs ;sediment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gradual sinking to a lower level
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Examples
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She carefully placed the phone back on its hook and then turned to Jesse, her expression settling into hard lines.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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She carefully placed the phone back on its hook and then turned to Jesse, her expression settling into hard lines.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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She carefully placed the phone back on its hook and then turned to Jesse, her expression settling into hard lines.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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Every foreign player that comes into a league in Europe that's not their home league and there's what they call a settling in period,
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The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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Then I came across this section entitled ‘The Perpetual Adolescent’ about men who (the book proposes) will have no interest in settling down until they hit forty, and whose lifestyle and perspective the book then described in intimate detail.
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The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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