Meet vs. Settle
Meetverb
Of individuals: to make personal contact.
Meetverb
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
Meetverb
To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
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To get acquainted with someone.
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(Ireland) To French kiss someone.
Meetverb
Of groups: to gather or oppose.
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To gather for a formal or social discussion.
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To come together in conflict.
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(sports) To play a match.
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To make physical or perceptual contact.
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To converge and finally touch or intersect.
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To touch or hit something while moving.
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To adjoin, be physically touching.
Meetverb
To satisfy; to comply with.
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To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
Meetnoun
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming (a swim meet).
Meetnoun
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
Meetnoun
(rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
Meetnoun
A meeting.
Meetnoun
(algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
Meetnoun
(Irish) An act of French kissing someone.
Meetadjective
(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
Meetverb
To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
Meetverb
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
Meetverb
To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
Meetverb
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
Meetverb
To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.
Meetverb
To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
Meetverb
To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
Meetverb
To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
Meetverb
To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
Meetnoun
An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
Meetadjective
Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
Meetadverb
Meetly.
Meetnoun
a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
Meetverb
come together;
Meetverb
get together socially or for a specific purpose
Meetverb
be adjacent or come together;
Meetverb
fill or meet a want or need
Meetverb
satisfy a condition or restriction;
Meetverb
satisfy or fulfill;
Meetverb
get to know; get acquainted with;
Meetverb
collect in one place;
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meet by design; be present at the arrival of;
Meetverb
contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
Meetverb
experience as a reaction;
Meetverb
undergo or suffer;
Meetverb
be in direct physical contact with; make contact;
Meetadjective
being precisely fitting and right;
Settleverb
To conclude or resolve (something):
Settleverb
(transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
Settleverb
(transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
Settleverb
(transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
Settleverb
To pay (a bill).
Settleverb
(intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
Settleverb
(transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
Settleverb
(transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit properly.
Settleverb
(transitive) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
Settleverb
To silence, especially by force; by extension, to kill.
Settleverb
(transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
Settleverb
To establish or become established in a steady position:
Settleverb
(transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
Settleverb
(transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
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To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
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(intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
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To be established in a profession or in employment.
Settleverb
To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. settle down.}}
Settleverb
To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
Settleverb
(transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
Settleverb
To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
Settleverb
(transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
Settleverb
(transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (as dregs, sediment, etc).
Settleverb
(transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
Settleverb
(intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.
Settleverb
To make a jointure for a spouse.
Settleverb
To make or become pregnant.
Settlenoun
(archaic) A seat of any kind.
Settlenoun
A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
Settlenoun
(obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. Compare a depression.
Settlenoun
A seat of any kind.
Settlenoun
A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
Settlenoun
A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
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.
Settleverb
To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
Settleverb
To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
Settleverb
Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
Settleverb
To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
Settleverb
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.
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To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
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To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
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To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
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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.
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To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
Settleverb
To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
Settleverb
To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
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To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Settleverb
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
Settleverb
To make a jointure for a wife.
Settlenoun
a long wooden bench with a back
Settleverb
settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground;
Settleverb
bring to an end; settle conclusively;
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settle conclusively; come to terms;
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take up residence and become established;
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come to terms;
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go under,
Settleverb
become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;
Settleverb
become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet;
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establish or develop as a residence;
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come to rest
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become clear by the sinking of particles;
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arrange or fix in the desired order;
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accept despite complete satisfaction;
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end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement;
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dispose of; make a financial settlement
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cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
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sink down or precipitate;
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fix firmly;
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get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury;
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make final; put the last touches on; put into final form;
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form a community;
Settleverb
come as if by falling;
