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/ˈkɒn.səʊl/ · noun
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.
The operating console of the new Glasgow Central cabin is divided into four sections, each at an angle to each other and each of which is normally under one signalman's control; [...]
Could you put my phone in the centre console?
On an attractive console with two winged putti as supporters [...] is a marriage coat of arms : Dexter, the Paoli arms : Gules (base), a bend azure charged with five lilies gules, and or (chief); Sinister, the[…]
The only authentic reference for the tincture of the shield still in existence is the armorial console in Jacques Coeur's chapel[…]
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling "Do you remember, my friend, that I went to Tostes once when you had just lost your first deceased? I consoled you at that time. I thought of something to say then, but now—" Then, with a loud groan that shook his whole chest, "Ah! this is the end for me, do you see! I saw my wife go, then my son, and now to-day it's my daughter."
However, she contained herself as best she might, consoled by the reflection that her reasoning had been justified by events.
Use console when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Console means A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system..
Common synonyms include comfort, solace, besoothe, cheer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The film's music blared from the console.
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