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Alighting vs Settling - What's the difference?

alighting | settling |

As verbs the difference between alighting and settling

is that alighting is while settling is .

As nouns the difference between alighting and settling

is that alighting is the act of one who alights while settling is the act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

alighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who alights.
  • * 1994 , Leslie Real, Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology (page 287)
    • We compared the frequencies of alightings on hosts with those predicted from random transect data.
  • * 2000 , Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring (page 24)
    • Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings ) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.

    settling

    English

    Verb

    (wikipedia settling) (head)

    • Derived terms

    * settling basin * settling tank

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
  • (usually plural) Dregs; sediment.

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