Fix vs. Settle: What's the Difference?

To correct or set right; adjust

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

To restore to proper condition or working order; repair

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

To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare

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

To spay or castrate (an animal).

To make compensation for (a claim).

To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means

To pay (a debt).

(Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.

To put into order; arrange as desired

To place securely; make stable or firm

To place or arrange in a desired position

To secure to another; attach

To agree to or fix in advance

To put into a stable or unalterable form

To establish as a resident or residents

To make (a chemical substance) nonvolatile or solid.

To migrate to and establish residence in; colonize

(Biology) To convert (nitrogen or carbon) into stable, biologically assimilable compounds.

To establish in a residence, business, or profession

To kill and preserve (a specimen) intact for microscopic study.

To restore calmness or comfort to

To prevent discoloration of (a photographic image) by washing or coating with a chemical preservative.

To cause to sink, become compact, or come to rest

To direct steadily

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

To capture or hold

To discontinue moving and come to rest in one place

To set or place definitely; establish

To move downward; sink or descend, especially gradually

To determine with accuracy; ascertain

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

To agree on; arrange

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

To assign; attribute

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

(Computers) To convert (data) from floating-point notation to fixed-point notation.

To establish one's residence

To direct one's efforts or attention; concentrate

To become established or localized

To become stable or firm; harden

To reach a decision; decide

Chiefly Southern US To be on the verge of; to be making preparations for. Used in progressive tenses with the infinitive

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

The act of adjusting, correcting, or repairing.

To provide compensation for a claim.

(Informal) Something that repairs or restores; a solution

To pay a debt.

The position, as of a ship or aircraft, determined by visual observations with the aid of equipment.

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

A clear determination or understanding

To conclude or resolve (something):

An instance of arranging a special consideration, such as an exemption from a requirement, or an improper or illegal outcome, especially by means of bribery.

(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).

A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament

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

(Slang) An amount or dose of something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic.

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

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

To pay (a bill).

(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

(intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.

(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

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

To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

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

To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.

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

(transitive) To mend, to repair.

(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).

To prepare (food or drink).

To silence, especially by force.

(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.

To kill.

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

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

To map a (point or subset) to itself.

(intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

(intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.

(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

To establish or become established in a steady position:

To convert into a stable or available form.

(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.

(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

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

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

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

A repair or corrective action.

(intransitive) To become married, or a householder.

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

To be established in a profession or in employment.

(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

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

A determination of location.

To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).

(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

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

Fixed; solidified.

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

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

(transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

(transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).

To transfix; to pierce.

(transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.

To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.

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

To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

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

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

(intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

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

To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

To make a jointure for a spouse.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

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

Fettling.

(archaic) A seat of any kind.

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

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

Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;

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

The act of putting something in working order again

A seat of any kind.

An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;

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

A determination of the location of something;

A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

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.

Cause to be firmly attached;

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.

Decide upon or fix definitely;

To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

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.

Take vengeance on or get even;

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.

Set or place definitely;

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.

Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

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.

Make fixed, stable or stationary;

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

Make infertile;

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

Put (something somewhere) firmly;

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

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;

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

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.

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

To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.

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

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.

To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.

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

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

To become calm; to cease from agitation.

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

To make a jointure for a wife.

A long wooden bench with a back

Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground;

Bring to an end; settle conclusively;

Settle conclusively; come to terms;

Take up residence and become established;

Come to terms;

Go under,

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

Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet;

Establish or develop as a residence;

Come to rest

Become clear by the sinking of particles;

Arrange or fix in the desired order;

Accept despite complete satisfaction;

End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement;

Dispose of; make a financial settlement

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

Sink down or precipitate;

Fix firmly;

Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury;

Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form;

Form a community;

Come as if by falling;