About The Word Console
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Console
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What's The Definition Of Console?
[n] housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
[n] an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture); "the bust of Napoleon stood on a console" [n] 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) [n] a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall [v] give moral or emotional strength to Synonyms | Synonyms for Console: cabinet | comfort | console table | solace | soothe Related Terms | Find terms related to Console: animate | assuage | assure | bear up | buck up | cabinet | calm | chassis | cheer | cheer up | choir | claviature | comfort | commiserate | condole with | control desk | control panel | ease | echo | eighty-eight | encourage | express sympathy for | feel with | fingerboard | give comfort | graphic panel | great | grieve for | grieve with | hearten | housing | inspirit | ivories | jack field | keyboard | keys | manual | master control desk | mixer | organ manual | panelboard | pedals | piano keys | put at ease | radio | radio receiver | radio set | radio telescope | reassure | receiver | receiving set | relieve | set | set at ease | solace | solo | soothe | sorrow with | speak soothing words | swell | sympathize with | tranquilize | upraise | weep for | weep with | wireless | wireless set See Also | allay | bracket | calm | calm down | ease | housing | lull | quiet | quieten | relieve | scientific instrument | still | table | tranquilize | tranquillise | tranquillize Console In Webster's Dictionary \Con*sole"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consoled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Consoling}.] [L. consolari,. p. p. consolatus; con- +
solari to console, comfort: cf. F. consoler. See {Solace}.]
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. --Pope.
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. --P.
Henry.
Syn: To comfort; solace; soothe; cheer; sustain; encourage;
support. See {Comfort}.
\Con"sole\, n. [F.] (Arch.) (a) A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height. (b) Any small bracket; also, a console table. {Console table}, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs. |
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