(to cause a person, animal) to be, rest, in a comfortable or new position; to become established in a new place, job, way of life; to make an agreement about (a dispute); to pay (a debt)
straighten out, resolve
Cases of word usage
1) to settle a dispute (between two opposite sides, opinions etc) by acting as the chosen judge(s) (arbitrate)
2) a person appointed by two opposite sides to settle a dispute (arbitrator)
3) a total failure to reach agreement or to settle a quarrel (deadlock)
4) to settle (a question or a doubt); give a judgment about (something) (decide)
5) to settle comfortably and warmly; to press oneself, (one's head etc) lovingly (to a person, animal) (nestle)
6) a bird's resting-place, e.g. a branch; a high position occupied by a person; to settle (perch)
7) a person who goes into an unexplored or undeveloped country to settle or work there; the first person to begin a new branch of study, method etc (pioneer)
8) (to help a person) to settle in a new country (resettle)
9) to pull with the roots; to take a person out of one place to work or settle in another (uproot)
10) of, from, in, the west part of a country, continent, the world etc; a film, story etc dealing with life in the west part of the USA during the period when Europeans had to settle there (western)
