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Console
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- 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.
"The film's music blared from the console."
- 2 housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television wordnet
- 3 A desk-like cabinet, table, or stand upon which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted.
- 4 an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) wordnet
- 5 An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.
"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; [...]"
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- 6 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) wordnet
- 7 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.
- 8 a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall wordnet
- 9 An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.; Abbreviation of video game console. abbreviation, alt-of
"Consoles continue to gain traction in the video game market."
- 10 A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
"Could you put my phone in the centre console?"
- 11 An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, often S-shaped.
- 12 A cantilever.
- 13 A decorative frame or support (in architecture, drawings, etc) around a heraldic shield.
"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[…]"
- 1 To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc. transitive
"However, she contained herself as best she might, consoled by the reflection that her reasoning had been justified by events."
- 2 give moral or emotional strength to wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French console (“bracket”, noun), from consoler (“to console, to comfort”, verb). Sense of “bracket” either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consolateur (“consoler”), itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load). Originally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an “organ console”; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as “mixer console” or “control console”, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as “operator’s console” or “console typewriter”, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as “support”.
Borrowed from French consoler, from Latin cōnsōlor (“I console, I offer solace”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”) (whence also solace).
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