consultとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

• enPR: kŏn'sŭlt or kənsŭlt'
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnsʌlt/, /kənˈsʌlt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsʌlt/

Verb

• enPR: kənsŭlt', IPA^(key): /kənˈsʌlt/

名詞

consult (複数形 consults)

1. (obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation
2. (obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.
   • a. 1701, John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 431:

     [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.

3. (obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne, Chapter 5

     a consult of coquettes

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

使用する際の注意点

• The noun consult is avoided in British English, where consultation is preferred. In American English, they are merely synonyms.

同意語

• consultation

動詞

consult (三人称単数 現在形 consults, 現在分詞 consulting, 過去形および過去分詞形 consulted)

1. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.

   • 1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England

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

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 (a person)
   • 1899, John Cotton Dana, chapter 1, in A Library Primer:

     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. (transitive) To refer to (something) for information.

   Coordinate term: look up

   • 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, chapter 3, in Far from the Maddening Girls:

     Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.

6. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:

     We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.

8. (transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Habakkuk 2:10:

     Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.

派生語

関連する語

• consultant
• consultation

Further reading

• consult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• consult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• Cultons