different between nightcap vs settler

English

Etymology

night +? cap

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?na?t?kæp/

Noun

nightcap (plural nightcaps)

1. A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. [From 14th c.]

   Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.

2. A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.]

   I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.

3. (by extension, figuratively) Something the person reads or listens to before bed.
   • 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist

     " […] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […] "

4. (US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. [From 1939.]
5. (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

Translations

Anagrams

• patching

English

Etymology

settle +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?t.l?/, /?s?t.l?.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?t.l?/, /?s?t.l?.?/
• Hyphenation: sett?ler

Noun

settler (plural settlers)

1. Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

   the first settlers of New England
2. Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
3. (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
4. (Britain) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
5. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
6. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.

Derived terms

• Settla

Related terms

• settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Norman

Etymology

From English settle +? -er.

Verb

settler

1. (Jersey) to settle (an argument, a dispute, etc.)