Initial and Settle

noun

• The first letter of a word (especially a person's name. )
  • usage: "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"

verb

• Mark with one's initials.

adjective

• Occurring at the beginning.
  • usage: "took the initial step toward reconciliation"

• (a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
• (v.t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
• (n.) The first letter of a word or a name.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

noun

• A long wooden bench with a back.
  • synonyms: settee

verb

• Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground.
  • usage: "dust settled on the roofs"
  • synonyms: settle down
• Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
  • usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • synonyms: decide, resolve, adjudicate
• Settle conclusively; come to terms.
  • usage: "We finally settled the argument"
  • synonyms: square off, square up, determine
• Take up residence and become established.
  • usage: "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
  • synonyms: locate
• Come to terms.
  • usage: "After some discussion we finally made up"
  • synonyms: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: sink, go down, go under
• Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
  • usage: "He finally settled down"
  • synonyms: root, take root, steady down, settle down
• Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet.
  • usage: "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"
• Establish or develop as a residence.
  • usage: "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
• Come to rest.
• Arrange or fix in the desired order.
  • usage: "She settled the teacart"
• Accept despite lack of complete satisfaction.
  • usage: "We settled for a lower price"
• End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement.
  • usage: "The two parties finally settled"
• Dispose of; make a financial settlement.
• Become clear by the sinking of particles.
  • usage: "the liquid gradually settled"
• Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids. )
• Sink down or precipitate.
  • usage: "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
  • synonyms: subside
• Fix firmly.
  • usage: "He ensconced himself in the chair"
  • synonyms: ensconce
• Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury.
  • usage: "I finally settled with my old enemy"
  • synonyms: get back
• Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.
  • usage: "let's finalize the proposal"
  • synonyms: finalize, finalise, nail down
• Form a community.
  • usage: "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
• Come as if by falling.
  • usage: "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
  • synonyms: fall, descend

• (v.i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
• (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
• (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
• (v.i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
• (v.i.) To enter into the married state or the state of a householder.
• (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society or parish; as, to settle a minister.
• (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
• (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
• (n.) A seat of any kind.
• (n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee or the grounds of coffee.
• (n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
• (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
• (n.) 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 or the like.
• (v.i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
• (v.i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
• (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
• (n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
• (v.i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid or the sediment of a reserveir.
• (v.i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
• (v.i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
• (v.i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.