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Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
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console
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from French consoler "to comfort, console," from Latin consolari "offer solace, encourage, comfort, cheer," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + solari "to comfort" (see solace ). Or perhaps a back-formation from consolation . The Latin word ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES games console ▪ They're bringing out a new games console this Christmas. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN thought ▪ She consoled herself with the thought that Pet would have been dead before it happened. ▪ Probably ...
Usage examples of console.
Trying to console John Quincy and Louisa Catherine, not to say himself, Adams wrote one letter after another at his desk by the library fire.
With a powerful thrust, Adler hurled the BGA employee clear, smashing him back into the radar console.
Some months had passed since the consoling vision in which she saw the purified soul of Aloysia carried to a crown of immortal bliss.
The astrophysicist looked up from the instrument console with a boyish grin and rubbed a hand across his blond crewcut.
In short, in the Auca story as in other stories, we are consoled as long as we do not examine too closely the unpalatable data.
All paid homage but the king of Avaric, who wept, and the bandit queen who could not console him.
He knew Bids was strong, and consoled himself that she would be the making of Hugh.
Stephen had the consolation of his watch, an elegant Breguet, a minute-repeater, that had travelled with him and consoled him for more years than he could easily reckon.
Seneca chuckled briefly, then returned to their task of consoling Sabinus over the loss of his position.
Panels of consoles blinked in silent rhythms as the great machine conferred with other comps, testing circuits.
A group of very young warriors, under the command of the Three Stooges, were working on what I can only describe as a piece of heavy artillerya big cannon, surrounded by computerlike consoles and several large cranes.
The only people left in the building should be the duty traffic controlman and one or two assistants manning the tower, consoles on the floor upstairs.
The control team was three men seated at controls, two in front on either side of a central console and one in the middle to supervise the other two.
The console controls the ballast tank vent and blowing system, the hovering system, and the trim system.
A console in the maneuvering room that controls the electrical distribution of the ship including the turbine generators and the battery.