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Quote:It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.[Jeseph Joubert]

Quote:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote:I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [Agatha Christie]



Definitions of: settle

Definition: A seat of any kind.

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

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

Definition: 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.

Definition: To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

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

Definition: To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.

Definition: To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

Definition: To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

Definition: To become calm; to cease from agitation.

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

Definition: To make a jointure for a wife.

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