Settle and Execute

settle

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

execute

verb

Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.
- usage: "In some states, criminals are executed"
- synonyms: put to death
Murder in a planned fashion.
- usage: "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
Put in effect.
- usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
- synonyms: carry through, accomplish, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
Carry out the legalities of.
- usage: "execute a will or a deed"
Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine.
- usage: "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction"
- synonyms: run
Carry out or perform an action.
- usage: "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
- synonyms: perform, do
Sign in the presence of witnesses.
- usage: "The President executed the treaty"

(v.i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.
(v.t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
(v.t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
(v.t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.
(v.t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.
(v.i.) To perform musically.
(v.t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ or process.
(v.t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

execute is the act of making a document legally valid, such as formalizing a contract by signing or acknowledging and delivering a deed. In some cases, execution of a document may refer solely to the act of signing, in other cases it may refer to complete performance of the document's terms.

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