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Definition: TO SETTLE ON |
TO SETTLE ON1. To confer upon by permanent grant; to assure to. ``I . . . have settled upon him a good annuity.'' --Addison. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A woman's love is like the morning dew: it's as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is a rose. (Lovin' Molly; writing credit: Stephen J. Friedman; Larry McMurtry) | |
Lyrics | All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze (Breathe; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | A Commission of seven persons, five of whom will be appointed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, one by Germany and one by Belgium, will be set up fifteen days after the coming into force of the present Treaty to settle on the spot the new frontier line between Belgium and Germany, taking into account the economic factors and the means of communication. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Tanzania | The island's commerce fell increasingly into the hands of traders from the Indian subcontinent, whom Said encouraged to settle on the island. (references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: tonettes. | |
-3 letters: nettles, teleost, telnets, testoon, tonette, tonlets, tootles. | |
-4 letters: lentos, leones, loosen, lottes, lottos, nestle, nettle, settle, stolen, stolon, telnet, telson, tenets, teston, tonlet, tootle. | |
-5 letters: enols, leets, lenes, lenos, lense, lento, leone, loons, loose, loots, lotos, lotte, lotto, netts, noels, nolos, noose, notes, oleos, onset, ottos, sente, seton, sleet, snool, snoot, solon. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-t" | |
+4 letters: teleportations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 53 45 54 54 4C 45 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 00100000 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   S E T T L E   O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0053 0045 0054 0054 004C 0045 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449253395454463924948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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