Definizione monolingua

consult

consult (third-person singular simple present consults, present participle consulting, simple past and past participle consulted)

1. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

   Let us consult upon to-morrows business. -William Shakespeare

   All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - Thomas Hobbes.

2. (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
3. (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
4. (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.

   Men fergot, or feared, to consult ... ; they were content to consult liberaries. - William Whewell.

5. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult ones wishes.

   We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -LEstrange.

6. (transitive), (obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.

   Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -Edward Hyde Clarendon.

7. (transitive), (obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

   Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. -Hab. ii. 10.

consult (plural consults)

1. (obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.

   The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -John Dryden.

2. (obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.

   A consult of coquettes. -Jonathan Swift.

3. (obsolete): Agreement; concert.
4. (US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.

Definizione dizionario consult

	consultare
	To confer with the call recipient before transferring a call or adding the call recipient to a conference call.

chiedere consulenza a

consigliare

discutere

interrogare

Altri significati:

(to) consult