SETTLE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does settle on mean? 

• SETTLE ON (verb)
  The verb SETTLE ON has 1 sense:

1. become fixed (on)

  Familiarity information: SETTLE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SETTLE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become fixed (on)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fixate; settle on

Context example:

Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon

Hypernyms (to "settle on" is one way to...):

freeze; stop dead (stop moving or become immobilized)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

It took some time for the researchers to settle on silicon as their material of choice, as there are other materials that could potentially work.

(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The world has been deceived in that respect; and I am happy to say there will be some little money, even when all his debts are discharged, to settle on my niece, in addition to her own fortune.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement. I always think that no mutual—"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By which the Colonel was surprised to find that SHE was considering Mr. Ferrars's marriage as the certain consequence of the presentation; for he did not suppose it possible that Delaford living could supply such an income, as anybody in his style of life would venture to settle on—and he said so.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)