How do you use the word "console" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "console" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "console": How do you console a woman who has just lost her only child? The Nintendo DS is a popular handheld game console.

Console Meaning

/ˈkɒn.səʊl/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.

nounA desk-like cabinet, table, or stand upon which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted.

Sentence Examples

How do you console a woman who has just lost her only child?

The Nintendo DS is a popular handheld game console.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

comfort solace soothe

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He tried to ____ his weeping friend after the sad news arrived.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She tried hard to gently ____ the unhappy crying child after he dropped his favorite ice cream.

Word Origin & History

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”.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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; [...]" — 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177:

"I rarely play FPS on a PC these days. I'm lazy and it's just so much easier to stick on Halo or Modern Warfare 2 on a console. Plus after a day in front of a PC I don't necessarily want to spend an evening in front of one." — 2010 September 21, Greg Howson, “Are consoles really better than PCs at shooter games?”, in The Guardian:

"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[…]" — 1919, Allan Marquand, Robbia Heraldry, page 60:

"The only authentic reference for the tincture of the shield still in existence is the armorial console in Jacques Coeur's chapel[…]" — 1994, James H. Marrow, François Avril, The Hours of Simon de Varie, Getty Publications, →ISBN, page 134:

"However, she contained herself as best she might, consoled by the reflection that her reasoning had been justified by events." — 1922, Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary, Chapter 9:

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