different between settle vs land

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?tl?/
• (General American) enPR: s?t??l, IPA^(key): /?s?t?l/
• Rhymes: -?t?l
• Hyphenation: set?tle

Etymology 1

From a merger of two verbs:

• Middle English setlen, from Old English setlan (“to settle, seat, put to rest”), from Old English setl (“seat”) (compare Dutch zetelen (“to be established, settle”)) and
• Middle English sahtlen, seihtlen (“to reconcile, calm, subside”), from Old English sahtlian, ?esehtlian (“to reconcile”), from Old English saht, seht (“settlement, agreement, reconciliation, peace”) (see saught, -le).

German siedeln (“to settle”) is related to the former of the two verbs, but is not an immediate cognate of either of them.

Verb

settle (third-person singular simple present settles, present participle settling, simple past and past participle settled)

1. To conclude or resolve (something):
   1. (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).
   2. (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
      1. (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
   3. (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
      • 2012, Paul Kelly, Willie Blair: A Tale of True Loss and Sadness ?ISBN:

        The coffee was only surface wet and looked worse than it actually was and as he returned to the Reception Desk to settle his account and give back his room key, he was met again by the young man who was still wearing his rucksack.

   4. (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).

   5. (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.

   6. (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
2. (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
   1. (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
      • 2012, Nancy Gideon, Seeker of Shadows ?ISBN:

        She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor.

      • 2002, Tom Deitz, Warautumn ?ISBN, page 53:

        Pausing only to settle his cloak and set his Regent's circlet on his hair, he strode to the rail and waited.

   2. (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
   3. (Britain, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
   4. to kill.
      • 1894-5, Patterson, Man and Nature (in The Primitive Methodist Magazine):

        I poured a charge of powder over the nipple so as not tu miss goin' off if possible. Click! went the match,—up jumped the flock, or tried tu. As they bunched up, Peggy blazed intu 'em, settlin’ how many I didn't know, [...]

   5. (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.

3. (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
   1. (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.

4. To establish or become established in a steady position:
   1. (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.
   2. (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
      1. (transitive, US, obsolete) In particular, to establish in pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.

   3. (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
   4. (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
   5. (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
   6. (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
      • 1735, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments

        Chyle [...] runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

5. (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
   1. (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).

6. (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
7. To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.
   1. (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.

   2. (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).

   3. (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.

   4. (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
   5. (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
   6. (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.

   7. (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)

8. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a spouse.
   • 1712, Samuel Garth, Epilogue to Cato, a Tragedy, by Joseph Addison:

     He sighs with most success that settles well.

9. (transitive, intransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.

Alternative forms

• sattle (in several British dialects)

Synonyms

• adjust
• arrange
• compose
• decide
• determine
• establish
• fix
• regulate

Antonyms

• (to place in a fixed or permanent condition): remove
• disturb
• agitate
• wander

Derived terms

Related terms

• settlement
• settler

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella.

Noun

settle (plural settles)

1. (archaic) A seat of any kind.
   • c. 1348, Richard Rolle, The Form of Living

     sit on a settle of joy with angels

   • 1608, Joshua Sylvester, "The Law", in Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

     If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens,

     One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;

   • 1878–1880, John Richard Green, A History of the English People:

     [The] Queen or eorl's wife, with a train of maidens, bore ale-bowl or mead-bowl round the hall, from the high settle of king or ealdorman in the midst to the mead benches ranged around its walls, while the gleeman sang the hero-songs

2. (now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
   • 1880, Ellen Murray Beam, English translation of Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier (?ISBN):

     Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen.

   • 1886, John Williamson Palmer, After His Kind:

     By the fireside, the big arm-chair [...] fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner.

3. (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)

Further reading

• settle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• settle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• settle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ettles, tetels

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.
6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
7. (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

   Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
• Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: land
• ? Sranan Tongo: lanti

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. first-person singular present indicative of landen
2. imperative of landen

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

1. country; nation

Declension

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

Declension

Related terms

• landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

Declension

Gothic

Romanization

land

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

land

1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/
• Rhymes: -?n?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

1. country
2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

References

• “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. urine from livestock

References

• “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: land

Old English

Alternative forms

• lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
• ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
• lendan (“to come to land”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lond
  • English: land
  • Scots: laund, land
  • Yola: lhoan, lone

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Noun

land ?

1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: land
• Faroese: land
• Norn: land
• Norwegian: land
• Old Swedish: land
  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land
• Old Danish: land
  • Danish: land
• Scanian: lann
• Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

• land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: lant
  • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
  • German Low German: Land
    • Plautdietsch: Launt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Elfdalian: land
• Swedish: land

Polish

Etymology

From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

land m inan

1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
2. (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)

   Synonyms: prowincja, wie?

Declension

Further reading

• land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From German Land

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

1. one of the federal states of Germany

Further reading

• “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
• Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air

3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities

4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

Synonyms

• (country): nation
• (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
• (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

References

• land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

1. land