different between station vs settle

English

Etymology

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. A stopping place.
   1. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

   2. A ground transportation depot.

   3. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
      • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

        " […] Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
   4. (US) A gas station, service station.
      • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

        Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. A place where workers are stationed.
   1. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

   2. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.

   3. A military base.

   4. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.

   5. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
      • 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,

        There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

      • 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,

        Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.

      • 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,

        The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

3. (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
4. (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
5. (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

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6. Standing; rank; position.
   • And they in France of the best rank and station

7. A broadcasting entity.

8. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
9. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
10. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
11. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
12. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
13. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
14. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:

      […] the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time […]

15. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

Synonyms

• (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
• (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation), stn (abbreviation)
• (military base): base, military base
• (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: estasyon
• ? Hindi: ?????? (s?e?an)
• ? Irish: stáisiún
• ? Malay: stesen
• ? Punjabi: ??????/?????? (sa???an)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
• ? Urdu: ?????? (s?e?an)

Translations

References

• “station” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. (Newfoundland station)

Verb

station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)

1. (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.

   The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

   I was stationed on the pier.

   • The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

2. To put in place to perform military duty.

   They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

   I was stationed at Fort Richie.

Translations

Anagrams

• sat on it

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stati? (“position, station”), derived from the verb stare (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd?a??o?n]

Noun

station c (singular definite stationen, plural indefinite stationer)

1. station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
2. station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
3. station (a company broadcasting radio or television)

Inflection

Derived terms

• brandstation
• endestation
• flyvestation
• mellemstation
• politistation
• pumpestation
• radiostation
• rutebilstation
• stationsby
• togstation

References

• “station” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French station.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /sta????n/
• Hyphenation: sta?ti?on
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

station n (plural stations, diminutive stationnetje n)

1. station (place for vehicles to stop)

   Synonym: statie

Derived terms

• benzinestation
• eindstation
• metrostation
• NS-station
• onderzoeksstation
• pompstation
• ruimtestation
• stationsgebouw
• stationschef
• tramstation
• treinstation
• tussenstation
• wegwaaistation
• weerstation

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: stasiun
• ? Javanese: setasiyun

See also

• depot

French

Etymology

From Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin st?ti?, st?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.sj??/

Noun

station f (plural stations)

1. station

Derived terms

Further reading

• “station” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tâtions

Interlingua

Noun

station (plural stationes)

1. station (place where workers are stationed)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English st?cioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ste??n]

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. station

References

• “station” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “station” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[4], 2016.
• “station” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta??u?n/

Noun

station c

1. station
   1. A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
   2. A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
   3. Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.

Declension

Related terms

• stationär

Derived terms

(facility used for broadcasting):

(facility used by a department or collecting of data):

(place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.):

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