consult

v 1: get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They

had to consult before arriving at a decision" [syn: {confer

with}]

2: seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary";

"refer to your notes" [syn: {refer}, {look up}]

3: when planning or deciding something

4: have a conference in order to talk something over [syn: {confer},

{confabulate}, {confab}]

5: advise professionally; work as a consultant

6: advise professionally; "The professor consults for industry"

7: consult (archaic); "The student should take counsel with

himself" [syn: {take counsel}]

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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