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Consult can be a noun or a verb.
consult used as a noun:
- 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." - A council; a meeting for consultation.
"A consult of coquettes. -Jonathan Swift." - Agreement; concert.
- A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
consult used as a verb:
- To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
"Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -" - To advise or offer expertise.
- To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
- 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." - To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
"We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange." - (transitive), : To deliberate upon; to take for.
"Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -Edward Hyde Clarendon." - (transitive), : 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."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is consult?
- Noun usage: The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -John Dryden.
- Noun usage: A consult of coquettes. -Jonathan Swift.
- Verb usage: Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -
- Verb usage: All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - Thomas Hobbes.
- Verb usage: Men fergot, or feared, to consult ... ; they were content to consult liberaries. - William Whewell.
- Verb usage: We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- Verb usage: Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -Edward Hyde Clarendon.
- Verb usage: Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. -Hab. ii. 10.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of consult are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of consult, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
