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Establish vs. Settle — What's the Difference?

Establish vs. Settle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Establish and Settle

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Establish

Set up on a firm or permanent basis
The scheme was established in 1975

Settle

To end or resolve (a dispute, for example) by making a decision or coming to an agreement.

Establish

Achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for
He had established himself as a film star
The principle of the supremacy of national parliaments needs to be firmly established

Settle

To resolve (a lawsuit or dispute) by mutual agreement of the parties rather than by court decision.

Establish

Show (something) to be true or certain by determining the facts
The police established that the two passports were forgeries
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Settle

To make the determinations and distributions of (a trust).

Establish

Ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit
The right plan would be to establish dummy's diamonds

Settle

To make compensation for (a claim).

Establish

To cause (an institution, for example) to come into existence or begin operating; found; set up.

Settle

To pay (a debt).

Establish

To bring about; generate or effect
Establish goodwill in the neighborhood.

Settle

To put into order; arrange as desired
Settle one's affairs.

Establish

To place or settle in a secure position or condition
They established me in my own business.

Settle

To place or arrange in a desired position
Settled the blanket over the baby.
Settled herself in an armchair.

Establish

To cause to become regular or usual
Established the habit of going to bed early.

Settle

To agree to or fix in advance
Settled the date of the meeting in June.

Establish

To cause to be able to grow or thrive
The tree needs to be watered to help it become established.

Settle

To establish as a resident or residents
Settled her family in Ohio.

Establish

To cause to be recognized and accepted
A discovery that established his reputation.

Settle

To migrate to and establish residence in; colonize
Pioneers settled the West.

Establish

To introduce and put (a law, for example) into force.

Settle

To establish in a residence, business, or profession
Was finally settled in his own law practice.

Establish

To prove the validity or truth of
The defense attorneys established the innocence of the accused.

Settle

To restore calmness or comfort to
The hot tea settled his nerves.

Establish

To make a state institution of (a church).

Settle

To cause to sink, become compact, or come to rest
Shook the box to settle the raffle tickets.

Establish

(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.

Settle

To cause (a liquid) to become clear by forming a sediment.

Establish

(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

Settle

To discontinue moving and come to rest in one place
The ball settled in the grass near the green.

Establish

(transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

Settle

To move downward; sink or descend, especially gradually
Darkness settled over the fields. Dust settled in the road.

Establish

(transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

Settle

To become clear by the sinking of suspended particles. Used of liquids.

Establish

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
So were the churches established in the faith.
The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down.
Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control.

Settle

To be separated from a solution or mixture as a sediment.

Establish

To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
By the consent of all, we were establishedThe people's magistrates.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed.

Settle

To become compact by sinking, as sediment when stirred up.

Establish

To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

Settle

To establish one's residence
Settled in Canada.

Establish

To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Settle

To become established or localized
The cold settled in my chest.

Establish

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Settle

To reach a decision; decide
We finally settled on a solution to the problem.

Establish

Set up or found;
She set up a literacy program

Settle

To come to an agreement, especially to resolve a lawsuit out of court.

Establish

Set up or lay the groundwork for;
Establish a new department

Settle

To provide compensation for a claim.

Establish

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound
The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture

Settle

To pay a debt.

Establish

Institute, enact, or establish;
Make laws

Settle

A long wooden bench with a high back, often including storage space beneath the seat.

Establish

Bring about;
The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth

Settle

To conclude or resolve (something):

Establish

Place;
Her manager had set her up at the Ritz

Settle

(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).
His fears were settled
She hopes to settle and questions about the plans.
The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.

Establish

Use as a basis for; found on;
Base a claim on some observation

Settle

(transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
To settle a quarrel

Establish

Build or establish something abstract;
Build a reputation

Settle

(transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.

Settle

To pay (a bill).
To settle a bill

Settle

(intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
He has settled with his creditors.

Settle

(intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.

Settle

(transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To settle my affairs
To settle her estate

Settle

(transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.

Settle

(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).

Settle

To silence, especially by force.

Settle

To kill.

Settle

(transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
Clear weather settles the roads

Settle

(intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
The weather settled.
Wait until the crowd settles before speaking.

Settle

(intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
The roads settled late in the spring.

Settle

To establish or become established in a steady position:

Settle

(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.

Settle

(transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.

Settle

To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).

Settle

(intransitive) To become married, or a householder.

Settle

To be established in a profession or in employment.

Settle

To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
They settled down at an inn.
The hawk settled on a branch.

Settle

(intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. settle down.}}
The Saxons who settled in Britain

Settle

To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
The French first settled Canada
The Puritans settled New England
Plymouth was settled in 1620.

Settle

(transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).

Settle

To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.

Settle

(transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
To settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee

Settle

(transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
To settle the sediment out of the water

Settle

(transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
To settle the chips in the potato chip bag by shaking it

Settle

(intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.

Settle

(intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.

Settle

(intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
The chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping.

Settle

(intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.
Wine settles by standing

Settle

To make a jointure for a spouse.

Settle

(ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.

Settle

(archaic) A seat of any kind.

Settle

A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.

Settle

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

Settle

A seat of any kind.

Settle

A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.

Settle

A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

Settle

To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed.
The father thought the time drew onOf setting in the world his only son.

Settle

To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.

Settle

To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.
Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.

Settle

To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; - said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.

Settle

To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; - said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.

Settle

To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.

Settle

To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.

Settle

To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.

Settle

To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

Settle

Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.

Settle

To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.

Settle

To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
The wind came about and settled in the west.
Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

Settle

To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

Settle

To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
As people marry now and settle.

Settle

To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

Settle

To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.

Settle

To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.

Settle

To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

Settle

To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

Settle

To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Till the fury of his highness settle,Come not before him.

Settle

To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.

Settle

To make a jointure for a wife.
He sighs with most success that settles well.

Settle

A long wooden bench with a back

Settle

Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground;
Dust settled on the roofs

Settle

Bring to an end; settle conclusively;
The case was decided
The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff
The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance

Settle

Settle conclusively; come to terms;
We finally settled the argument

Settle

Take up residence and become established;
The immigrants settled in the Midwest

Settle

Come to terms;
After some discussion we finally made up

Settle

Go under,
The raft sank and its occupants drowned

Settle

Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;
He finally settled down

Settle

Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet;
The roar settled to a thunder
The wind settled in the West
It is settling to rain
A cough settled in her chest
Her mood settled into lethargy

Settle

Establish or develop as a residence;
He settled the farm 200 years ago
This land was settled by Germans

Settle

Come to rest

Settle

Become clear by the sinking of particles;
The liquid gradually settled

Settle

Arrange or fix in the desired order;
She settled the teacart

Settle

Accept despite complete satisfaction;
We settled for a lower price

Settle

End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement;
The two parties finally settled

Settle

Dispose of; make a financial settlement

Settle

Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

Settle

Sink down or precipitate;
The mud subsides when the waters become calm

Settle

Fix firmly;
He ensconced himself in the chair

Settle

Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury;
I finally settled with my old enemy

Settle

Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form;
Let's finalize the proposal

Settle

Form a community;
The Swedes settled in Minnesota

Settle

Come as if by falling;
Night fell
Silence fell

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