console
/ˈkɑn.soʊl/ noun C1- A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system. · The film's music blared from the console.
- A desk-like cabinet, table, or stand upon which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted.
- An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.
- The keyboard and screen of a computer or other electronic device.
- A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile. · Could you put my phone in the centre console?
- An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, often S-shaped.
- A cantilever.
- A decorative frame or support (in architecture, drawings, etc) around a heraldic shield.
Plural consoles
From the library
If I were betrayed as he was, I would console myself; but to be in the midst of persons elevated by myself to places of honor, who ought to watch over me more carefully than over themselves,—for my fortune is theirs—before me they were nothing—after me they will be nothing, and perish miserably from incapacity—ineptitude!
She determined to “shroud her feelings in deepest oblivion,” and it may be stated here and now that she did it, so successfully that Gilbert, who possibly was not quite so indifferent as he seemed, could not console himself with any belief that Anne felt his retaliatory scorn.
“Say not so; you can console and support me by the strength of your own powerful mind.
God has sent you to me to console, at one and the same time, the man who could not be a father, and the prisoner who could not get free.”
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