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To settle is to either build a home or quit the fight — wild that one word does both.
means To settle is to come to rest, reach agreement, or make a place your permanent home — finally bringing motion or dispute to a stop.
from From Old English 'setlan,' to seat or place, built on 'setl,' a seat or resting-place — itself a cousin of 'sit.' The thread runs straight through: a settle was once a long wooden bench, and to settle was literally to put something on its seat. From there the meanings fanned out — settling a body into a chair, settling debts into balance, settling people onto land — all variations on getting things to come to rest.
- two meanings
- Founding a town and giving up share a verb
- physics
- Dust settles by simply surrendering to gravity
- legal exit
- Most lawsuits end in settlement, not verdicts
- old root
- Comes from a word meaning to seat oneself
- the brew
- Beer foam settles into the drink you wanted
treaty of westphalia — ended the thirty years' war in 1648, established modern state system
treaty of paris 1783 — ended american revolutionary war, british recognized us independence
camp david accords — 1978 agreement between israel and egypt, brokered by carter