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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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"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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