Sedentary vs Settlement - What's the difference?
sedentary | settlement |
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
The state of being settled.
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
(legal) A resolution of a dispute.
As an adjective sedentary
is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.As a noun settlement is
the state of being settled.sedentary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.