(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.
Jutting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jut
(a.) Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
(2) When the goal came it was scruffy in the extreme, Ramos jutting out his right boot to turn Nani's cross into his own net.
(3) Anyone who has visited Moscow will recognise the Seven Sister high-rises commissioned by Joseph Stalin between 1947 and 1953 that jut out across the city’s skyline.
(4) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.
(5) His left hand jutted out and that touch was enough to take the ball away from the goal.
(6) Nasri's clever little flick left Chris Smalling exposed at right-back and Agüero, twisting his body and jutting out his left foot, managed to apply just the right measure of control to volley in Kolarov's cross.
(7) Bony had merely jutted out his left leg after Sterling’s shot came back off the goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
(8) The building, whose jutting angles reflected Soviet industrial design, was torn apart by bullets and rockets and became crowded with Afghan drug addicts.
(9) One of the best places to experience Pennsylvania’s only shoreline is at Presque Isle state park, a sandy peninsula that juts out into the lake and provides a haven for migrating birds.
(10) Now all that remains of the €400,000 centrepiece of the city’s cultural jamboree is a few broken stumps jutting out of the pavement.
(11) More dramatically, Code Arkitektur has just completed an ambitious viewing point with the concrete ramp jutting over the vast Utsikten valley on the Gaularfjellet route.
(12) The Isle of Thanet is a pancake-flat semi-island jutting into the North Sea and is surrounded by water on three sides.
(13) It is dwarfed by a flotilla anchored just offshore, of colossal dredges and barges, hulking metal flatboats with cranes jutting from their decks.
(14) It started early on when he jutted out a leg to prevent Ryan Mason opening the scoring and his portfolio of saves included one from the penalty spot when Roberto Soldado had the chance to make it 2-2 just after the hour.
(15) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
(16) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(17) Wilshere had been fortunate in the first half to avoid what by modern-day standards could easily have been a red-card offence, taking exception to one of Mike Dean’s decisions, aiming a mouthful of invective at the referee and then responding to Marouane Fellaini’s indignation by jutting his forehead into his opponent’s chin.
(18) The presidential palace, a cluster of colonial-era villas perched atop a rocky hill that juts into the Arabian Sea, was Hadi’s last bastion before he fled to Saudi Arabia last month.
(19) But it was left to the NT News to tell the real story in juts a few words: Rich Dude Becomes PM: Malcolm Turnbull seizes power in coup against Tony Abbott.
(20) MH370: Australia believes it is looking in the right place Read more On Sunday the sonar vehicle attached to the Fugro Discovery was lost after it ran into a mud volcano jutting out from the ocean floor.