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/kˈɑnsoʊl/ /kənsˈoʊl/ Listen

noun

Console n.

(Arch.)

(a)

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

(b)

Any small bracket; also, a console table.

(Computers) The keyboard and monitor of a computer considered together.

(Engineering) The controlling portion of an electrical, electronic, or mechanical device or system, from which the operator may observe the state of the system as indicated by gauges or on some form of display n. 3, and may direct or control the action of the system.

The desklike controlling unit of an organ containing the keyboard, pedals, stops, etc. by means of which the organ is played.

A home entertainment device such as a television, radio, phonograph, CD player, or combination of these, designed as a piece of furniture, to stand on the floor rather than on a table or in a separate cabinet; also used attributively in the phrase console model.

Console table, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs.

verb

Console v. t. (past & past part. consoled; pres. part. consoling) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. "And empty heads console with empty sound." "I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete."

Synonyms: To comfort; solace; soothe; cheer; sustain; encourage; support. See Comfort.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Console" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will unlace,—my ornaments forsaking, Barefooted up the stairway steep will mute and cautious follow! Ah, but too gladly would I gaze again on earthly living! I fain my mother would console, sad for her daughter grieving— would my brothers twain behold, who for their sister sorrow!" "O do not yearn, thou wretched child, for those thou lovest, ever! Thy brothers in the village street now joyful lead the wrestling— ...

— Russian Lyrics • Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

... she had thought of her son. But, to acknowledge her fault, to blush before her own child, to weep while taking from him the right to console her, was more than she could do. No, there was nothing for her but death. To die as soon as possible, to escape shame by a complete disappearance, to unravel in this way an inextricable situation. ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... old man console himself for the rudeness he could not restrain. It was not long ere a summons hurried them to the courtyard. They found their beasts equipped and ready to depart; Harry and Julia looking joyously on, vastly diverted with the horses' accoutrements. Hildebrand stood by the gateway, looking ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... government, and of course the Union, ceased to exist. The constitutional amendment abolishing slavery is void; the loan-acts and the tax-acts are without authority; every fine collected of an offender was robbery; and every penalty inflicted upon a criminal was itself a crime. The President may console himself with the reflection that upon these points he is fully supported by Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-President of the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various

... scientific in vaccimulgence. That last word is a new one, but soft in sound, and full of expression. Vaccimulgence! I am pleased with the word. Write to me all things about yourself; where I cannot advise, I can console; and communication, ...

— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

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