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console [n]

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

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console_table

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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)

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scientific_instrument computer

3)	an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture); "the bust of Napoleon stood on a console"

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bracket

4)	housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

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cabinet

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housing

console [v]

1)	give moral or emotional strength to

Synonyms :

comfort solace soothe

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comfort solace consolation allayer comforter calm allay

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. The operator's station of a mainframe. In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys. Under Unix and other modern time-sharing operating systems, such privileges are guarded by passwords instead, and the console is just the tty the system was booted from. Some of the mystique remains, however, and it is traditional for sysadmins to post urgent messages to all users from the console (on Unix, /dev/console).

2. On microcomputer Unix boxes, the main screen and keyboard (as opposed to character-only terminals talking to a serial port). Typically only the console can do real graphics or run X. See also CTY.

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