Settle vs Shelter - What's the difference?
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To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.
* And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)
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(transitive, obsolete, US) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.
To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose.
* (George Chapman)
* (John Bunyan)
To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink
To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition
To cause to sink; to lower
To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty
* (Jonathan Swift)
To pacify (a discussion, quarrel).
(archaic) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance.
(colloquial) To pay.
To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory).
To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself
* (Francis Bacon)
* (John Arbuthnot)
To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home.
To become married, or a householder.
* (Matthew Prior)
To be established in a profession or in employment.
To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
To become clear after being unclear or vague
* (Joseph Addison)
To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
To become calm; to stop being agitated
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement.
(obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.
* (Samuel Garth)
(archaic) A seat of any kind.
* Hampole
A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen.
(obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
* Bible, Ezekiel xliii. 14
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
In transitive terms the difference between settle and shelter
is that settle is to colonize; to move people to (a land or territory) while shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.In intransitive terms the difference between settle and shelter
is that settle is to adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement while shelter is to take cover.settle
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(settl)- God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.
- Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.
- It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.
- to settle a bill
- The wind came about and settled in the west.
- Chyleruns through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.
- As people marry now and settle .
- A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles .
- Till the fury of his highness settle , Come not before him.
- He sighs with most success that settles well.
Synonyms
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(en noun)- upon the settle of his majesty
- And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle , shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "settle")External links
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English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.