CONSOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does console mean? 

• CONSOLE (noun)
  The noun CONSOLE has 4 senses:

1. a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall

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

  Familiarity information: CONSOLE used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. give moral or emotional strength to

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

console; console table

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

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

scientific instrument (an instrument used by scientists)

Domain category:

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the bust of Napoleon stood on a console

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

bracket; wall bracket (a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cabinet; console

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

housing (a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component)

• CONSOLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they console ... he / she / it consoles
Past simple: consoled   
Past participle: consoled   
-ing form: consoling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give moral or emotional strength to

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

comfort; console; solace; soothe

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

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

allay; ease; relieve; still (lessen the intensity of or calm)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will console her
The performance is likely to console Sue

Derivation:

consolable (able to be consoled)

consolation (the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction)

consolation (the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment)

consolatory (affording comfort or solace)

 Context examples 

At one corner of the wide, low wall was a seat, and here Amy often came to read or work, or console herself with the beauty all about her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She fainted when she saw me return, and made a little jug of egg-hot afterwards to console us while we talked it over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He walked away again immediately, and she was left to fret over her own want of presence of mind; Charlotte tried to console her: I dare say you will find him very agreeable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On the other hand, the delight of exploring an edifice like Udolpho, as her fancy represented Blaize Castle to be, was such a counterpoise of good as might console her for almost anything.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling, that it would soon be over.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I confess that the sight of it consoled me, for it was really the first direct corroboration, slight as it was, of the truth of his story.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all that he has suffered.

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

"Some day I'll beat the face off of him," was the way he often consoled himself for enduring the man's existence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For my part, I slipped after him to try to console him, and to tell him all the wonderful changes which had come so suddenly into my life.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)