Settle

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Rhymes with kettle, metal, mettle...

  • settler: colon, un colonisateur, une colonisatrice
  • settlement: village founded by settlers
  • settle a bill: to pay a bill
  • settle out of court: to come to an agreement without an official decision
  • settle a dispute: to come to an agreement
  • settle up: to pay completely, régler (there is a smartphone payment app called Settle up)
  • settle down: calm down
  • settle down: fonder une famille
  • settle in: s'y installer (pour la nuit, pour l'hiver ou même pour quelques années)
  • unsettling (adj): troubling, perturbing, disconcerting...

Compare to "set"

set sth up: paramétrer qqch, mettre qqch en place

When you set sth down you stop carrying it...

  • upset so: make SO angry or sad
  • upset sth: knock STH over, mess STH up
  • upset (adj): angry, mad, overwhelmed (bouleversé), perturbed, sad
  • upsetting (adj): navrant, bouleversant


  • set theory: théorie des ensembles (algèbre)