Settle

Definition

settle 1 /'setl/ v ၁။ ~ sth (with sb) စာရင္းရွင္းသည္။ ေက်ေအးသည္။ ၿပီးျပတ္သည္။ settle a dispute/ an argument/ an issue ❍ It's time you settled your differences with your father. ❍ There is pressure on the unions to settle. ❍ The parties in the lawsuit agreed to settle out of court (ie come to an agreement without going to court). ၂။ (က) အတည္ တက်ေနထိုင္သည္။ အေျခခ်သည္။ settle in London/ in Canada/ in the country/ near the coast ❍ She married and settled close to her parents' home. (ခ) (နယ္သစ္တြင္) အေျခခ်သည္။ The Dutch settled in South Africa. ❍ ( fml ) This area was settled by immigrants over a century ago. ၃။ ~ (on/ over sth) ထိုင္သည္။ နားသည္။ တင္သည္။ I don't think this snow will settle (ie remain on the ground without melting). ❍ The bird settled on a branch. ❍ Dust had settled on everything. ❍ ( fig ) An uneasy silence had settled over the waiting crowd. ေစာင့္ေနေသာ လူအုပ္ ႀကီးသည္ မခ်င့္မရဲ ႏွင့္ပင္ ၿငိမ္က်သြားသည္။ ၄။ ~ (back) သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာ ေနသည္။ အက်ထိုင္သည္။ settle (back) in one's armchair ❍ He settled himself on the sofa to watch TV. ၅။ (esp passive) ၿပီးျပတ္ေစသည္။ ၿပီးၿပီ။ That settles the matter. ❍ Everything's settled. We're leaving on the nine o'clock train. ၆။ ၿငိမ္ၿငိမ္ေနသည္။ ေအးၿငိမ္းေစသည္။ The baby wouldn't settle. ❍ Have a drink to settle your stomach. ❍ This pill will help to settle your nerves. ❍ He seemed quite worried, but I managed to settle his mind. ၇။ ~ (up) (with sb) (က်သင့္ ေငြ)ရွင္းသည္။ Have you settled (up) with her for the picture she sold you? ❍ If you pay for both of us now, we can settle up later. ❍ The insurance company took a long time to settle (her claim). ❍ Please settle your bill before leaving the hotel. ၈။ အနည္က်သည္။ ထိုင္သည္။ The contents of the packet may have settled in transit. ❍ Stir the coffee to settle the grounds. ❏ settle a score (with sb) ; settle an old score [ IDM ] ရန္ၿငိဳးရန္ေႂကြးဆပ္သည္။ ကလဲ့စားေခ်သည္။ ❏ settle down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေနသားတက်ေနသည္။ သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာ နားသည္။ settle down for the night ❍ She settled down in an armchair with the newspaper. ၂။ အသားက်သည္။ ေနသားက်သည္။ အေျခ ခ်သည္။ When are you going to marry and settle down? ❍ She is settling down well in her new job. ❏ settle (sb) down [ PHRV ] ၿငိမ္သည္။ (ၿငိမ္ေအာင္)ထိန္း သည္။ It took the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson. ❍ After all the recent excitement things have begun to settle down again. ❍ The chairman tried to settle the audience down. ❍ Settle down and be quiet! ❏ settle for sth [ PHRV ] မေက်မနပ္ႏွင့္ လက္ခံရသည္။ ေအာင့္သက္သက္ႏွင့္ လက္ခံရသည္။ They had hoped to win the match easily but in the end had to settle for a draw. ❍ We couldn't afford the house we really wanted, so we had to settle for second-best. ❏ settle in/into sth [ PHRV ] ေနသားက်သည္။ အသားက် သည္။ We only moved house last week and we haven't settled in yet. ❍ How are the children settling into their new school? ❏ settle on sth [ PHRV ] ေရြးသည္။ We've finally settled on Italy for our holidays. ❍ Have they settled on a name for the baby yet? ❏ settle sth on sb [ PHRV ] ( law ) (ဥစၥာပစၥည္း) တရားဝင္ ေပးသည္၊ ေသတမ္းစာျဖင့္ေပးသည္။ He settled part of his estate on his son. ❏ settle (down) to sth [ PHRV ] အတည္တက် လုပ္သည္။ Before you settle down to work, can I ask you a question? မင္းအလုပ္စမကိုင္ခင္ တစ္ခြန္းေလာက္ ေမးလို႔ ရမလား။ settle 2 /'setl/ n ေနာက္မီွ၊ လက္တန္းပါ သစ္သားခံုရွည္။

Examples

1. We are going to settle our differences
2. once and for all.
3. Neither side shows any intention of settling at this stage.
4. [settle something out of court] : The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
5. He has 30 days to settle his bill.
6. The insurance company is refusing to settle the claim.
7. [it is settled that] : It was settled that they would leave before dark.
8. It took a while for the silt and mud to settle.
9. [settle on] : Flakes of snow settled on the windscreen.
10. [settle in] : Her relatives had come to America and settled in Boston.
11. When was this city first settled?
12. [] : She settled the little boy on the next stool to her.
13. [settle back] : I settled back into a comfortable chair and waited.
14. Let your stomach settle before having anything to eat.
15. You need a lawyer to help you settle your affairs.
16. She settled her pack on her back
17. and set off.
18. [settle over/on/in] : Fear settled over her heart.
19. A feeling of nausea settling in his stomach
20. [settle on] : A large fly settled on the bread.
21. [settle on] : Her eyes settled on the man in the corner.