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Consult vs Domestic - What's the difference?

consult | domestic |

As nouns the difference between consult and domestic

is that consult is : The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision while domestic is a house servant; a maid; a household worker.

As a verb consult

is to seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

As an adjective domestic is

of or relating to the home.

consult

English

Alternative forms

* consultation (Only noun form in UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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. -.
  • (obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
  • A consult of coquettes. -.
  • (obsolete): Agreement; concert.
  • (US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
  • Usage notes

    * The noun consult is avoided in British English, favoring consultation instead. In AmE, they are merely synonyms.

    Synonyms

    * consultation

    Verb

    (en 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. -
    All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - .
  • 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 forgot, or feared, to consult''' ... ; they were content to '''consult libraries. - .
  • 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.
  • (obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
  • Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -.
  • (obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
  • Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.

    domestic

    Alternative forms

    * domestick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the home.
  • * 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
  • “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
  • Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
  • (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
  • * 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
  • It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
  • Internal to a specific country.
  • * 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
  • The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable * (kept by someone) domesticated

    Antonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social * (local) foreign * (kept by someone) wild, feral

    Derived terms

    * domestic cat * domestic hot water * domestic violence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
  • * Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
  • A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
  • * 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
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