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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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"Console" Quotes from Famous Books



... what I know is that I will not be perjured. Take pity on me, then, and go! Oh, if you are struck in France, if you die in France, if I could imagine that your love for me was the cause of your death, I could not console myself; I should run mad. Depart then, depart, ...
— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "One must console one's self that everything great and good becomes at length known," said the cousin of the family, who is known to us by his verses for the Christmas-tree. "The nations will become acquainted with everything splendid in the kingdom of ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... We must console ourselves for this state of things by reflecting that it is really fortunate that the greater number of men do not form a judgment on their own responsibility, but merely take it on authority. For what sort of criticism should we have on Plato and Kant, Homer, ...
— The Art of Literature • Arthur Schopenhauer
... United States, the Senate, or the District Attorney in New York couldn't do that for him. And here was a whipper- snapper Lord Chamberlain telling him that the Cabinet would grant him half-an-hour! He managed to console himself, however, with the thought that matters would not always be as they were at present. There would be a decided ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... could not travel slowly home. This show of anger on the Captain's part, caused her to commence crying, as she knew that he could not resist so powerful an appeal to his sympathy. The result equalled her anticipations. The Captain soon lost all his irritation and began to console her, as if she were a spoilt child; finally, she induced him to go driving with them that afternoon. The Captain told me afterward, that Pattmore behaved with great propriety during the drive, and that they did not seem to be so ...
— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton


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