consort

n 1: a person's partner in marriage [syn: {spouse}, {partner}, {married

person}, {mate}]

2: a family of similar musical instrument playing together

[syn: {choir}]

v 1: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with

strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues"

[syn: {associate}, {affiliate}, {assort}]

2: go together; "The colors don't harmonize" [syn: {harmonize},

{accord}, {fit in}, {agree}]

3: keep company; of male animals [syn: {run}]

console

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 system}s, 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 {sysadmin}s 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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