consult
noun
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.
verb
1. get or ask advice from
- Consult your local broker
- They had to consult before arriving at a decision
Definition categories: communication, ask, enquire, inquire
2. seek information from
- You should consult the dictionary
Similar word(s): refer
Definition categories: communication, research
3. have a conference in order to talk something over
- We conferred about a plan of action
Similar word(s): confab, confabulate, confer
Definition categories: communication, discuss
4. advise professionally
- The professor consults for industry
Definition categories: communication, advise, counsel, rede
Sentences with consult as a verb:
- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -William ShakespeareAll 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 ...
- 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.