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Console   /kˈɑnsoʊl/  /kənsˈoʊl/   Listen
Console

noun
1.
A small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall.  Synonym: console table.
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.  Synonym: cabinet.
verb
(past & past part. consoled; pres. part. consoling)
1.
Give moral or emotional strength to.  Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe.



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... and galloped away. He halted at the church, threw the reins over the animal's head and went and sat on the steps. He wanted to think. He wanted to calm himself. He hoped that the place would console him with its memories, afford ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... and having found the philosophic reason inadequate to provide a satisfying way of life, accepted a new mythology, because it was inspired by ideas which were powerful to guide, to inspire, and to console. For many centuries we shall look in vain for any serious study of human life except in conformity to the ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam
... to console her, weeping too. Mag's baby, dozing in front of the fire, sensed the general grief and lifted up her voice in sympathy. Big Liza, attracted by the commotion, learned the cause of it and added herself ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... answered that I would never see him again. The poor little man had been laid away underground, without my knowledge, and, indeed, with the knowledge of very few people, on a short time after the happy delivery of Madame Coccoz. I leaned that his wife had been able to console herself: I did likewise. ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... we are on the high road to State Socialism, though Mill helps us to console ourselves with having taken that road on strictly scientific principles. It is the not unusual result of stating large benevolent theories for popular application; the principle is accepted and its limitations are disregarded. Nevertheless Mill contends gallantly in his later works for intellectual ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall


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