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Console   /kˈɑnsoʊl/  /kənsˈoʊl/   Listen
noun
Console  n.  
1.
(Arch.)
(a)
A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
(b)
Any small bracket; also, a console table.
2.
(Computers) The keyboard and monitor of a computer considered together.
3.
(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.
4.
The desklike controlling unit of an organ containing the keyboard, pedals, stops, etc. by means of which the organ is played.
5.
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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"Console" Quotes from Famous Books



... the beautiful Giulia Farnese, his new mistress, could not move him at all, and was obliged to go and seek Lucrezia, that daughter doubly loved to conquer his deadly resolve. Lucrezia came out from the retreat were she was weeping for the Duke of Gandia, that she might console her father. At her voice the door did really open, and it was only then that the Duke of Segovia, who had been kneeling almost a whole day at the threshold, begging His Holiness to take heart, could enter with servants ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... increasing, and except when they were in active exercise, they felt it severely. The old captain especially, from being unable to move, suffered greatly, and was rapidly sinking. Andrew, whenever the party stopped, acted the part of a true Christian, and was by his side, endeavouring to console and cheer him with the blessed promises of the gospel. What other comfort could he have afforded? The old man felt its unspeakable value, and after his voice had lost the power of utterance, holding Andrew's hand, he signed to him to stoop down and speak ...
— Archibald Hughson - An Arctic Story • W.H.G. Kingston

... has existed for some time a most distressing constipation which has resisted a large number of purgatives of increasing strength. Whenever the child is placed upon the stool, his crying at once begins, and no attempts to soothe or console him have been successful. It is not sufficient for the doctor in such a case to make an examination which convinces him that there is no fissure at the anus and no fistula or thrombosed pile, and to confine himself to saying that he can find ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

... not showing the attention which might have been expected to the 'guide, philosopher, and friend;' the Imlac who had hastened from the country to console a distressed mother, who he understood was very anxious for his return. They had, I found, without ceremony, proceeded on their journey. I was glad to understand from him that it was still resolved that his tour to Italy with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale should take place, ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi

... I a monstrous clever fellow," he would console himself, "to take them all in so completely? It is a joke to which, I think, I do ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell


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