CONSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consent mean? 

• CONSENT (noun)
  The noun CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. permission to do something

  Familiarity information: CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.

• CONSENT (verb)
  The verb CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

  Familiarity information: CONSENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Permission to do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he indicated his consent

Hypernyms ("consent" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consent"):

informed consent (consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved)

Derivation:

consent (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)

consentaneous (in complete agreement)

• CONSENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they consent    ... he / she / it consents   
Past simple: consented   
Past participle: consented   
-ing form: consenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accept; consent; go for

Context example:

I go for this resolution

Hypernyms (to "consent" is one way to...):

react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consent"):

give (consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man)

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

settle (accept despite lack of complete satisfaction)

contract in (consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use)

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)

take in charge; undertake (accept as a charge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

consent (permission to do something)

 Context examples 

His plan was to get it accepted by one of the high magazines, and, thus armed, again to wrestle with Brissenden for consent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I already regretted having ever consented to take charge of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles was to return to Lyme the same afternoon, and his father had at first half a mind to go with him, but the ladies could not consent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For, your mouths lying flat with your faces, you can hardly bite each other to any purpose, unless by consent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“And if you want to laugh at me, you have my consent and forgiveness.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I say scarcely voluntary, for it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Don't dare to think more of such a desecration; I shall not give my consent to anything you do.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers obtained synovial fluid from consenting osteoarthritis patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and from post-mortem donors with no known joint disease.

(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)

You must have my consent to that first, said Heinel, so please to step in here, and let us talk it over.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Since they can consent to part with you,” said he, “we may expect philosophy from all the world.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)