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SETTLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gradual sinking to a lower level
Synonyms:
settling; subsidence; subsiding
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("settling" is a kind of...):
sinking (a descent as through liquid (especially through water))
Derivation:
settle (sink down or precipitate)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb settle
Context examples:
Mars will remain in your fourth house until March 30, making March 20 to March 30 especially potent for settling home-related matters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Ah, then, we’ll step over afterwards,” said the Colonel, coolly settling down to his breakfast again.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I was also aware of that,” murmured Holmes, settling himself down in his armchair and closing his eyes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said:—I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In re-settling themselves there were now many changes, the result of which was favourable for her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash, but I don't reckon him ornamental now, do you?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And there is another thing which surprised me; I find, in settling accounts with the housekeeper, that a lunch, consisting of bread and cheese, has twice been served out to the girls during the past fortnight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right fore-hoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better by taking it off and settling it again; whereat, both he and his companion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis when suddenly, to my sorrow and to his unfeigned delight, we found ourselves, even in that land of dreams, plunged into a problem at our very doors which was more intense, more engrossing, and infinitely more mysterious than any of those which had driven us from London.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
