consult

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒnsʌlt/|/kənˈsʌlt/    美 /ˈkɑnsʌlt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation. US,countable
  2. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]
  3. The result of consultation; determination; decision. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.
  4. A council; a meeting for consultation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — a consult of coquettes
  5. Agreement; concert. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise. intransitive
    — Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
  2. To advise or offer expertise. intransitive
    — Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.
  3. To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm. intransitive
  4. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person) transitive
    — If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations.
  5. To refer to (something) for information. transitive
    — Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.
  6. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. transitive
    — We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
  7. To deliberate upon; to take for. obsolete,transitive
    — Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
  8. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. obsolete,transitive
    — Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.

词形变化

consults plural consults present,singular,third-person consulting participle,present consulted participle,past consulted past

词汇关系

近义词
refer
衍生词
consultability consultable consultancy consultative consultee consulter consulting room consultive consultor consultress e-consulting nonconsulted nonconsulting reconsult teleconsult unconsulted unconsulting
相关词
consultant consultation

词源

词源 1
From Middle French consulte. In sense “council”, it represents Latin cōnsultum, Italian consulto; and it may have been often taken as a direct formation from the verb.
词源 2
From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultō (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulō (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulō, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to take, grab”).
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