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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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He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament.
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.
Keep the bodywork of the car as sparkling as possible and get rid of all the debris that tends to settle on the carpets.
Soon after release, the originally motile female microgametes begin to settle on a surface and start to secrete a chemical signal.
Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.

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