'Consult' definitions:
Definition of 'consult'
(from WordNet)
verb
Get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision" [syn: consult, confer with]
verb
Seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" [syn: consult, refer, look up]
verb
Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action" [syn: confer, confabulate, confab, consult]
verb
Advise professionally; "The professor consults for industry"
Definition of 'Consult'
From: GCIDE
- Consult \Con*sult"\, v. t.
- 1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. [1913 Webster]
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . .; they were content to consult libraries. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. [1913 Webster]
- We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. --Hab. ii. 10. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Consult'
From: GCIDE
- Consult \Con*sult"\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]lt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consulting.] [L. consultare, fr. consulere to consult: cf. f. consulter. Cf. Counsel.] To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. [1913 Webster]
- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Consult'
From: GCIDE
- Consult \Con*sult"\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]lt" or k[o^]n"s[u^]lt), n.
- 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] "A consult of coquettes." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Agreement; concert [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consult'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advise,
- advise with,
- bargain,
- blow,
- call in,
- cast away,
- cogitate,
- collogue,
- compare notes,
- confab,
- confabulate,
- confer,
- confer with,
- consider,
- consult with,
- counsel,
- deliberate,
- devour,
- discuss,
- discuss with,
- dissipate,
- drivel,
- eat,
- examine,
- exchange observations,
- exchange views,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- feed on,
- finish,
- fritter,
- GO,
- have conversations,
- hold conference,
- huddle,
- ingest,
- inquire of,
- interrogate,
- look up,
- meal,
- negotiate,
- palaver,
- parley,
- partake of,
- powwow,
- put heads together,
- question,
- reason with,
- refer to,
- run through,
- sit down together,
- sit down with,
- spend,
- squander,
- take,
- take counsel,
- take counsel with,
- take up with,
- talk over,
- throw away,
- treat,
- trifle away,
- use up,
- wash up
Words containing 'Consult'
- Consultation,
- Consultative,
- Consulted,
- Consulter,
- Consulting,
- Consultive,
- consultancy,
- consultant,
- Consulting physician,
- Writ of consultation,
- beauty consultant,
- consulting company,
- consulting firm,
- consulting service,
- fashion consultant,
- management consultant,
- management consulting,
- media consultant,
- security consultant