(n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
(n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
(n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
(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 cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
(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 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.
(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.) 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.
(n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
(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 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 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.
(v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
(v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
(v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
(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.
(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 sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
(v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
(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.
(v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(2) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(4) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(5) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(6) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(8) The issue of a beneficial effect of calcium channel blockers on human coronary atherosclerosis is however not yet settled.
(9) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(10) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
(11) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
(12) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(13) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(14) Once they are settled and their roots are heading down to more secure sources of water, ease back.
(15) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(16) Plasma HPL settled at a constant level during the last few weeks before labor.
(17) Mistakes in maternity care account for a third of the £1bn a year the NHS has to spend settling medical negligence claims.
(18) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(19) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.
(20) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
Viking
Definition:
(n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radioactive gas was released from the medium solution used in the Viking Labeled Release (LR) experiment when interacted with the clays, at rates and quantities similar to those measured by Viking on Mars.
(2) The Viking scheme, first unveiled in 2009, expects to exploit Shetland’s highly-exposed location and substantial winds coming off the north Atlantic, after it is built on about 50 square miles of moorland north of Lerwick on the island group’s main island.
(3) It became clear at some point between the exhibition packed with people (mid-week) politely jostling each other to examine the tiny fragments of a culture that disappeared over a thousand years ago and the gift shop mugs and tea cloths depicting charts of the seas – North, Baltic, Atlantic – across which the Vikings sailed.
(4) 23) Minnesota Vikings Last year: 10-6 Needs: Wide receiver, defensive tackle, linebacker, cornerback Pick: Cordarrelle Patterson, wide receiver, Tennessee Receiver remains a priority for Minnesota, despite the arrival of Greg Jennings in free agency.
(5) The Radisson hotel chain suspended its sponsorship deal with the Vikings and former players like Cris Carter and Scott Fujita lined up to question the team’s motives while Peterson insisted that he was not a child abuser.
(6) Lady Clark, the judge in the 2013 case, had also found against Viking Energy because it did not have an electricity generating licence – a technical issue which was later dropped by the protesters.
(7) We don't have Vikings any more, invading countries and stealing the pretty women.
(8) Manchester Craft and Design Centre, 17 Oak Street, Manchester, M4 5JD; Mon-Fri 9am–5pm; 07850 894 752; ministryofcraft.co.uk The Viking Loom Independent but with huge in-store stock, this is an Aladdin's cave of all things crafty.
(9) The present results suggest that, if the large dense-cored vike those membrane-bound particles in other paraneurons, contain peptides, monoamines and ATP, the turnover of these products as secretory materials is much slower in this cell than in such endocrine paraneurons as adrenal chromaffin cells and gut endocrine cells.
(10) It had all the edge of a Viking River Cruise – and much the same clientele I should imagine – and felt more like a salsa theme park than authentic Cuba.
(11) The owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf said in a statement published on the team’s website: “While we were trying to make a balanced decision yesterday, after further reflection we have concluded that this resolution is best for the Vikings and for Adrian.
(12) Johnny 'Drama' Chase High Using his Viking Quest skills to help get Aquaman positive reviews from some bloggers at ComicCon.
(13) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(14) Ironically, the hull was discovered under the Viking Ship Museum, in Roskilde, Denmark, when an extension was being built in 1997.
(15) One NFL coach, speaking anonymously to Sports Illustrated after Sam came out, said: “I don’t think football is ready for [an openly gay player] just yet.” On Twitter, Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings punter who has become an outspoken critic of attitudes to homosexuality within the NFL, said: “At least one team finally showed some balls.
(16) With all the original timbers fitted into a steel frame that will recreate its full length and form, the ship will be the centrepiece of Viking, an exhibition opening at the Danish national museum in June , before being transported to London to launch the British Museum's new exhibition space in 2014 .
(17) Only the Vikings' war room really knows which way it's leaning on this one.
(18) At just over 36 metres, it was four metres longer than Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose built 500 years later, and six metres longer than the Viking ship spectacularly recreated as Sea Stallion, which sailed from Scandinavia around Scotland to Dublin in 2007.
(19) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(20) My goal is always to teach my son right from wrong and that’s what I tried to do that day.” Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf made the decision after consulting with Spielman and coach Mike Zimmer and the players who were available to the media on Monday lined up to support it.