consume

v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in

the course of one meal" [syn: {devour}, {down}, {go

through}]

2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl

of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:

{ingest}, {take in}, {take}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}]

3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: {squander},

{waste}, {ware}]

4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

5: use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a

lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through

20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: {eat up}, {use up}, {eat},

{deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]

6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his

energy"

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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