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- IPA: /ˈkɒnsʌlt/
- IPA: /kənˈsʌlt/
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
- (obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
- (obsolete): Agreement; concert.
- (US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
- (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
- (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
- (transitive, obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
- (transitive, obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
Esimerkit
- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -John Dryden.
- A consult of coquettes. -Jonathan Swift.
- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -William Shakespeare
- All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - Thomas Hobbes.
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult ... ; they were content to consult libraries. - William Whewell.
- We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -Edward Hyde Clarendon.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.
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