console — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.

   Exemplos

   The film's music blared from the console.

2. A desk-like cabinet, table, or stand upon which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted.

3. An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.

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   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; [...]

4. 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.

5. A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.

   Exemplos

   Could you put my phone in the centre console?

6. An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, often S-shaped.

   Termos mais gerais

   bracket

7. A cantilever.

8. A decorative frame or support (in architecture, drawings, etc) around a heraldic shield.

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   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[…]

Verbo

1. To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinônimos

   comfortsolace

   Palavras relacionadas

   solaceconsolconsulcouncilcounsel

   Exemplos

   However, she contained herself as best she might, consoled by the reflection that her reasoning had been justified by events.

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   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."

Substantivo

1. a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall

   Sinônimos

   console table

   Termos mais gerais

   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)

   Termos mais gerais

   scientific instrument

3. an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture)

   Termos mais gerais

   bracketwall bracket

   Exemplos

   the bust of Napoleon stood on a console

4. housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

   Sinônimos

   cabinet

   Termos mais gerais

   housing

Verbo

1. give moral or emotional strength to

   Sinônimos

   comfortsoothesolace

   Termos mais gerais

   actmove