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CONSULTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of referring or consulting
Example:
reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):
action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))
Derivation:
consult (seek information from)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A conference between two or more people to consider a particular question
Example:
a consultation of several medical specialists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):
conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consultation"):
sidebar ((law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing)
Derivation:
consult (advise professionally)
consult (have a conference in order to talk something over)
consult (seek information from)
consult (get or ask advice from)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A conference (usually with someone important)
Example:
he requested an audience with the king
Synonyms:
audience; consultation; interview
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("consultation" is a kind of...):
conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)
Derivation:
consult (have a conference in order to talk something over)
consult (get or ask advice from)
Context examples:
The resource operates, maintains, and upgrades instrumentation for flow cytometric analysis and cell sorting, advises in the design of experiments and contributes consultation in analysis of data.
(Flow Cytometry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical specialists are engaged in practice, case management, education, consultation, research, and administration.
(Gerontological Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
During two years I have had three consultations and one small job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought me.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Twelve months after diagnosis, patients assessed their GP’s empathy and their experiences of diabetes care over the preceding year using the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) questionnaire.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
Charles, Henrietta, and Captain Wentworth were the three in consultation, and for a little while it was only an interchange of perplexity and terror.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She turned into the drawing-room for privacy, but Henry and Eleanor had likewise retreated thither, and were at that moment deep in consultation about her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He promised to come to me as soon as he could disengage himself from Knightley; but he and Knightley are shut up together in deep consultation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A moment later he said to me, as calmly as though we had been having a sick-room consultation:—"Seventy-two only; and in all this excitement. I have hope."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They talked it over at meal-time, and over their last pipes before going to bed, and one night they held a consultation.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
