settler
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
settler (plural settlers)
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- the first settlers of New England
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)
- First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.
- 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)
- French: colon
- German: Siedler, Ansiedler, Kolonist
- Italian: colonizzatore, colonizzatrice, colono
- Portuguese: colono
- Russian: поселе́нец
- Spanish: colonizador
- German: Schlichter
- Italian: digestivo
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