(v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
(n.) A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
(n.) Any small bracket; also, a console table.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(2) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(3) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(4) Traoré had added a fifth before Andros Townsend dispatched a consolation from distance, though that meant little.
(5) But from others there is a sense that Microsoft has had to sacrifice a potentially progressive view of the console industry to win back consumer support.
(6) PCs and games consoles had replaced the easily programmable machines of his youth, while schoolchildren were being taught to use word processors and spreadsheets instead of the code that created them.
(7) Besides, he consoled himself with the thought that the ghosts probably wouldn’t dare to hurt Pippi.
(8) Labour might have created them as little more than a marriage equality consolation prize, but in doing so they accidentally made something genuinely worth having.
(9) The gratitude I feel to Velázquez for this greatest of paintings is untold; he gave me the consolation I most needed in my life.
(10) Later on Monday, Obama made a eve-of-convention visit to the flooded Louisiana coast to console victims of hurricane Isaac.
(11) PC gaming and console gaming are different, and the customer segments have capabilities and expectations that are unique to the platforms they play on,” he says.
(12) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
(13) On the PS4, for example, as soon as you switch the console on, you'll get a news screen showing what all your friends are playing – you'll even be able to leap straight into their games.
(14) The hosts were losing 1-0 before the spot-kick, which was despatched by Yaya Touré, before City went on to score three more goals - with Etienne Capoue grabbing a consolation for Tim Sherwood's side.
(15) And because the market is expanding, ironically consoles may even have a larger customer base thanks to tablets and mobile devices: in a broader market, the 10% slice may end up bigger than the 100% slice of a smaller, niche market.
(16) Nothing doing for Marte who can do nothing with an inside fastball - that's four strikeouts now for Wainwright - at least Marte saw 12 pitches, but that's small consolation down seven runs.
(17) Solid fusion was obtained in 10 of the 11 patients, while the console fusion collapsed because of failure to follow instructions after surgery in 1 patient.
(18) Signalling a switch in emphasis towards promoting greater devolution as a possible consolation prize and targeting voters who support stronger devolution, Salmond's spokesman said: "There are negatives but there are positives as well in terms of the proportion who say they would support the Scottish parliament having responsibility for things like welfare and taxation."
(19) All measurements of the tonsils were obtained directly from the video console.
(20) The reversal in fortune of this generation compared to last means that Microsoft has to be aggressive with its console upgrade strategy to gain market initiative.
Corbel
Definition:
(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Right faction pushes to use Young Labor for votes majority at national conference Read more “This change to Labor platform would set two key goals, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions on a 2000 baseline year by 2030, and 50% renewables by the same year,” Corbell told a clean energy summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
(2) The ACT’s deputy chief minister, Simon Corbell, has called on the federal leadership to adopt the Lean position next weekend.
(3) Corbell has not spoken to Brandis directly about the fifth tranche of anti-terrorism laws, but said his department had raised concerns about lowering the age of control orders to 14.
(4) Passengers using regional rail services, however, might well complain that because the great train shed at St Pancras is given over, lock, stock and corbel, to Eurostar services, they have been demoted to platforms under a new, flat concrete, steel and glass roof, described as a "magic carpet" by its architects, set at the very far end of the station and seemingly closer to Manchester than Euston Road.
(5) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, told Guardian Australia there had been a “significant level of harmonisation” in police power and detention laws, and NSW’s threat to break away would represent a “very significant departure” in that harmonisation.
(6) From the dust and soot of the Euston Road rose a Railway Age cathedral, cloth hall and castle, all hammered and crafted into a convincing and enthralling whole, borrowing spires, arches, corbels and crockets from Amiens, Brussels, Ypres and all cardinal gothic points south through the Alps to Verona and Venice.
(7) "Regardless of what happens in the high court, the significance of this moment will remain and send a strong signal about what a contemporary 21st century Australia should look like," ACT attorney-general Simon Corbell said.
(8) Serological comparison of the prototype and an epizootic (Corbell) strain of simian hemorrhagic fever virus revealed that the two viruses were serologically similar.
(9) Serological comparison of the prototype virus grown in tissue culture and its homologous antibody and the prototype and Corbell viruses recovered from rhesus monkey serum and their homologous antibodies showed differences and suggest that a complex relationship exists which has not yet been defined.
(10) It is a leap of faith now to accept Simon Corbell’s assurances that the amendments will make this bill lawful when he’s spent the last few weeks arguing against the need for any such amendments,” Hanson said during the debate.
(11) The prototype strain differs from the Corbell strain in that the latter cannot be cultivated in vitro.
(12) It is very difficult to see justification in extending control orders to people of this age,” Corbell said, adding that children of that age could not independently form the intent required for political and religious extremism.
(13) Hanson criticised Corbell for producing amendments at the last minute, saying they prevented proper scrutiny by the assembly.
(14) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
(15) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, said the amendments were intended to make it clear that the two legal regimes, the territory law and the commonwealth’s Marriage Act, were envisaged to work concurrently.
(16) Corbell said the territory’s move posed no threat to the commonwealth – and it had been established that the regulation of relationships was a shared power.