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Console   /kˈɑnsoʊl/  /kənsˈoʊl/   Listen
Console

noun
1.
A small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall.  Synonym: console table.
2.
A scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system).
3.
An ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture).
4.
Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television.  Synonym: cabinet.
verb
(past & past part. consoled; pres. part. consoling)
1.
Give moral or emotional strength to.  Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe.



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"Console" Quotes from Famous Books



... speechless to the ground. His sorrow brought him almost to the brink of the grave. He was long indisposed; but reason at last got the better of his affliction, and the severity of his fate served to console him. ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... that the island we should never see again, and though I had been so anxious for so many years to quit it, now that fate had separated us for ever, I could not console myself for the loss of a home endeared to me by so many recollections. But my great grief was the loss of my grandfather's diamonds. He had now no chance of having them restored to him. If they were found they would become the property ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Marryat
... tributaries, offers a ready-made waterway for thousands of miles. Sierra Leone lies only 400 miles, less than half, from the Niger; but what would the Colonial Office say if a similar military line were proposed? Nor can we console ourselves by the feeble excuse that Senegal has a climate superior to that of our 'pest-houses.' On the contrary, she suffers severely from yellow fever, which has never yet visited the British Gold Coast. Her mortality ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton
... Wrightson avowed to me that he repeated 'Locksley Hall' every morning of his life before breakfast. This I told Tennyson. His answer was a grunt; and in a voice from his boots, 'Ugh! enough to make a dog sick!' I did my utmost to console him with the assurance that, to the best of my belief, Mr. Wrightson had once ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... anxiously followed every breakable article as it went its airy way into the vessel's maw. His wife and children were sitting on the quay-wall, eating out of a basket of provisions. They had been sitting there for hours. The children were tired and tearful; the mother was trying to console them, and to induce them to ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo


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