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What does settle on mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word settle on? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make a decision or selection; to decide, arrange, or agree on.
  2. To confer (an annuity, etc) upon by permanent grant; to assure to. (Compare settle (“formally, legally secure”).)
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Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.
Even now my restless eyes will settle on its surface and pause, as if some mystery, still obscure, might be solved.
Allen's gaze had come to settle on the horizon, where the sun was slowly dipping out of sight, a fiery light burning into the sky.
As her desire for a White Christmas grows, the shavings of snow form into larger flakes that settle on her coat, making her cold but cheerful.
A slick of coral larvae encounters pumice, and the larvae settle on it as a new home.
He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament.

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